noissances qu'ils eussent, étoient des erreurs grosledges which they might-have, + were of-the errors gross ledge which they possessed, consisted of gross errors; sières; personne ne se doutoit parmi eux que nobody not himself + doubted among them that among them suspected that nobody Il It d'un autre pays dans les climats opposés. of another the climates opposite. n'y avoit pas long-temps que le peuple avoit not there † had * long-time long time had elapsed since that the people + had the people voulu brûler à Moscou le secrétaire d'un ambassawilled to-burn at Moscow the secretary of an of Moscow wanted to burn the secretary of an ambassaambassa deur de Perse, qui avoit prédit une éclipse de dor of Persia, who + had predicted an dor from Persia, who had predicted an soleil. Ils ignoroient jusqu'à sun. sun. eclipse of eclipse of the l'usage des chif the use of-the ciof the use of ci fres; ils se servoient, pour leurs phers; they themselves + availed, not there had * of other manner of to-count There was no other mode of reckoning in any of the offices les bureaux de recettes, et dans le trésor du Czar. of receipts, and in the treasury of-the Czar. the offices of the revenue, or in the Czar's treasury. Leur religion étoit, et est encore, celle des Chré- of-the Chris quelles ils étoient d'autant plus fortement attachés, which they + were of so-much more strongly attached, which they were strongly attached, the more manger du pigeon, parceque le Saint-Esprit est to-eat of-the to eat pigeon, pigeon, because the Holy because the Spirit is Holy Ghost is. étoient les objets de leur ils n'osoient year; and during se nourrir they not dared themselves to-nourish they dared not eat Dieu et Saint Nicholas God Nicholas God and Saint culte, et imméworship, and imme were the objects of their were the objects of their highest reverence, and next diatement après eux, le Czar et le patriarche. after them, the Czar and the patriarch. them, the Czar and the patriarch. et infligeoit les supplices les plus cruels, sans qu'on and + inflicted the punishments the most cruel, without that one and inflicted the most cruel tortures, without any pût might-be-able 17 appeler de son tribunal. Il se pro to-appeal from his tribunal. forward te horse two tribunal. He himself † moved menoit à cheval deux fois l'an, suivi de tout son times the year, followed of all his on horseback twice a year, followed by his whole clergé en cérémonie. Le Czarà pied tenoit la bride state. The Czar to foot + held the bridle held the horse's clergy in ceremony. se prosternoit dans les himself + prostrated of-the horse, and the people rues, comme les Tartares as the Tartars streets, streets, as in the in the devant leur Grand the Tartars do before their Grand Lama. La confession étoit pratiquée, mais ce n'étoit l'absolution leur paroissoit nécessaire, mais non le the absolution to-them + appeared necessary, then thought absolution necessary, though not repentir. repentance. Ils se croyoient purs devant Dieu, They themselves + believed pure before God, repentance. They imagined themselves pure before God, la bénédiction de leurs Pathe benediction of their Pabenediction of their Pa avec when they had received the pas. pas. Ainsi ils passoient sans remords de la con Thus they + passed pas. They thus passed without remorse from the conwithout remorse from con les pères de famille, les prêtres, les femmes, les filles, the fathers of family, the priests, the women, the girls, fathers of families, priests, women, and girls, s'enivroient "d'eau-de-vie les jours de fêtes. themselves intoxicated of water of life got drunk with brandy the days of festivals. festivals. on On disputoit cependant sur la religion en ce One + disputed People disputed yet upon the religion in this about religion, however, in this pays, comme ailleurs; la plus grande querelle étoit & country, as elsewhere; the most great quarrel † was country, as elsewhere; the most violent dispute was pour savoir si les laïques devoient faire le signe de for to-know if the laymen + ought to-make the sign of whether laymen ought to make the sign of la croix avec deux doigts ou avec trois. Un certain fingers or with three. A certain fingers or three. A certain the cross with two the cross with two Jacob Nursuff, sous le précédent règne, avoit excité Jacob Nursuff, under the preceding reign, + bad excited Jacob Nursuff, in the preceding reign, had excited 6 une sédition dans Astracan au sujet de cette dis .a a pute. pute. sedition in sedition in Astracan to-the subject of this disconcerning this con Il y avoit même des fanatiques, comme It there had even of-the fanatics, as troversy. There were even fanatics here, as well as parmi ces nations policées, chez qui tout le monde among those nations subjected-to-police, among whom all the world in those more civilized nations, where every body. est théologien; et Pierre, qui poussa toujours la is theologian; and Peter, who pushed always the is a theologian; and Peter, who always executed justice justice until to the cruelty, made to-perish by the justice with a rigour amounting to cruelty, condemned some of jusqu'à la cruauté, fit périr par le fire feu quelques-uns de ces misérables qu'on nommoit whom one + named the unhappy wretches called Vosko-Jesuits to perish Vosko-Jésuites. some · ones of those wretches Le Czar, dans son vaste empire, avoit beaucoup The Czar, in + had his vast empire, The Czar, within his vast empire, had d'autres sujets qui n'étoient pas Chrétiens. of other subjects who not † were subjects who were not much many Les The Christians. Christians. The Tartares, qui habitent le bord occidental de la Mer western of the Sea western border of the Cas Tartars, who inhabit the border Palus Méotis, sont Mahomé Caspienne, et du tans. tans. Les Sibériens, les tans. qui sont who are The Siberians, the the Samoïdes, Ostiacs, the Samoides, vers la Mer Glaciale, étoient des towards the Sea + Icy, † were of-the who live on the confines of the were sauvages, dont les uns étoient idolâtres, les autres |