A Popular History of Russia From the Earliest Times to 1880 volume 2
A Popular History of Russia From the Earliest Times to 1880 volume 2
Alfred Rambaud
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Six hundred and fifty-two deputies assembled at Moscow; officials, nobles, citizens, peasants, Tatars, Kalmuiki, Lapps, DIDEROT AND CATHERINE II. 1762-1796. ] CATHERINE II. : REFORMS. 205 Samoyedui, and many others. Each man was to be furnished with full powers, and with instructions compiled by at least five of the electors. Each received a medal with Catherine's effigy, and the motto, "Eor the happiness of each and of all, December fourteen, seventeen hundred and sixty-six. " They were exempt...ed forever from all corporal punishments, and were declared inviolable during the session. In the " Instruc- tions for the arrangement of the New Code " Catherine the Second, according to her own expression, " pillaged " the philosophers of the West, especially Montesquieu and Becca- ria. "It contained, " says the prudent Panin, "axioms that would knock a wall down. " Catherine the Second assures Voltaire that her " Book of Instructions " was interdicted at Paris. Among the ideas of which she boasted, we meet with the following, which were certainly calculated to enrage Louis the Fifteenth : " The nation is not made for the sovereign, but the sovereign for the nation.
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