The Delaware register, or, Farmers', manufacturers' & mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1828-1829, 1829-07-04

Nor LET be supposed that there any thing peure in this
for in him. every thing, to the major part Of his most r
anp actions tended great purpose. For this
his return Moscow he went to the master OF the FORGE
and injured what he paid his workmen. WE'LL them, said
he H. at that rate have earned eight Atkins abou thirteen
nence] and for the money! Having received IT,
be added that, with that he would buy for himself
Dar of shoes of which he in great want This
~ true; and then fastened to the market to make his
chase which he afterwards felt pleasure in wearing See
what have earned by the sweat Of brow said he to his
courtiers-thus prdng himself the fruits of his labor, in
te ewes of nobility whom he wished to of the Oren-
a and naughty Incidence with which they mbued"
great man. who thus exposed the weak points his char
acer should be thought vain of his greatness
since he considered able to afford such concessions to his
puerties Count Segur whose capacity for estimating
The qualities of civil and military governor not very large
B developed up the merits and defects of his idol in
these words
Historians of the nineteenth century, while deest the
violent of this prince, why should be asonshed at
his desposm! Who was there who could then teach him.
that TO be truly liberal moral is the thing But of
what that he ignorant that morality calls
for the establishment of liberty, being the best possible
means of securing the general welfare All that he did for
that weare other Words for the gory the instruction,
and the prosperity of his empire, not beneficial to that
liberty, of which neither himself nor his people were yet wor
thy? Thus without being of it, Peter the Great did
more for liberty than all the dreams of liberalism have since
nced that he ought to have DONE His people indebted
him for their great and difficult step towards
patton What Matters then, his adherence of the word,
when he abored much for the thngi Since desposm
necessary there, how could he better employ it
If he carried matters too farif he often deemed just
10 Intc on MS all "hIch
and treat his country like conquest in order TO
cyRatonn word, if he overcame in his Russians their
barbarous maners by dnt of the barbarism which still
NAMED hmsehe fault must be attributed TO his educa
c TO the age in which he lived and to the circumstance of
degree of power being requisite there which has been
found to exist in without being pushed to excess.
at in this hyperborean land, where freezing tempe
adverse 10 social intercourse, by combining each nd
ydual within his limits; in these humid and cold regions
where kind of strength and superiority though
ought itself only escape from them conquer
milder climate under distant sky, il here that this
citizen despo familiar accessible enamored of TRUTH
full of the pride of noble actonsand endowed with admra
BILE sagaciy with boundess ZEAL and with seepess activity
devoted himself in order transform this barbarou and des-
oang nature into enlightened and productive narure
IT sentiment in this estimate be ruethat he contrib
ud to liberty without being of it, worthy of par
cpng its resuhen the euogst of Peter the Great has
taken great deal of trouble to no purpose.
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