par-tout la nature, cherchant à la corriger ou à la by all the nature, seeking to her to-correct or to her examining nature, endeavouring to correct or to perfectionner; sondant lui-même les profondeurs des to-perfect; perfect her; depths the depth sounding him sounding same the of-the of fleuves et des mers, ordonnant des écluses, visitant rivers and of-the seas, ordering of-the locks, visiting rivers and seas, ordering locks, visiting des chantiers, faisant fouiller des mines, éprouvant dock-yards, making to-explore of-the mines, the dock-yards, exploring proving mines, assaying les métaux, faisant lever des cartes exactes, et y the metals, making to-raise of-the charts exact, and there metals, causing accurate maps to be drawn, and travaillant working de sa main. of his hand. working at them with his own hands. Il a bâti, dans un lieu sauvage, la ville impériale He has built, in He built, on a place savage, the city imperial a wild spot, the imperial city de Pétersbourg, qui contient aujourd'hui soixante une cour brillante, et où enfin on connoît les plaia court brilliant, and where at-last one knows the pleahas been created, and where refined pleasures are at sirs délicats. Il a bâti le port de Cronstadt sur He has built the port of Cronstadt upon sures delicate. length known. He built the port of Cronstadt upon la Néva, Sainte-Croix sur les frontières de la Perse, upon the frontiers of the Persia, Croix upon the frontiers of Persia, St. the Neva, the Neva, St. des forts dans amirautés à Archangel, à Pétersbourg, à Asat Archangel, at Petersburg, at As naval establishments at Archangel, at Petersburg, at As admiralties tracan, à Azoph; des arsenaux, des hôpitaux. tracan, at Azoph; tracan, and at Azoph; of-the arsenals, of-the hospitals. arsenals and hospitals. Il faisoit toutes ses maisons petites et de mauvais He + made His own houses were all goût; mais il prodiguoit pour les maisons publiques taste; but he + lavished for the houses public taste; but he lavished magnificence and grandeur la magnificence et la grandeur. the magnificence and the grandeur. on public edifices. Les sciences, qui ont été ailleurs le fruit tardif The sciences, which have been elsewhere the fruit tardy The sciences, which have elsewhere been the tardy growth de tant de siècles, sont venues par ses soins dans of so-much of centuries, are of so many come by his cares in ages, by his care were introduced into ses états toutes perfectionnées. his states all perfected. his dominions in their utmost perfection. Il a créé une He has created an He instituted an académie sur le modèle des sociétés fameuses de academy upon the academy on the Paris et de Londres. Les Delisle, les Bulfinger, les The Delisles, the Bulfingers, the Paris and of London. Paris and of London. Delisle, Bulfinger, Hermand, les Bernouilli, le célèbre Wolf, homme man a man été excellent en tout genre de philosophie, ont excellent in every kind of philosophy, have been eminent in every branch of philosophy, were appelés à grands frais à Pétersbourg. Cette aca called at great costs to Petersburg. great expense, to Petersburg. brought, at VOL I. This This acaaca K pleins d'esprit et de connoissances. C'est ainsi qu'un full of wit and of knowledges. full of talent and information. It is thus that a Thus did a seul homme a changé le plus grand empire du single man has changed the most great single man change the greatest empire of-the empire of the P'humanité. the humanity. humanity. Of the brutality De la brutalité dans ses plaisirs, de la in his pleasures, of the Brutality in his pleasures, férocité dans ses mœurs, de la barbarie dans ses venferocity in his manners, of the barbarity in bis venferocity in his manners, barbarity in his re geances se mêloient à tant de vertus, geances themselves + mixed to so-much of virtues. venge were mingled with his many virtues. çoit ses peuples, et subjected-to-police his peoples, and lished il he 11 poli He He po étoit † was sau sa his people, while he himself remained a sa vage; il le sentoit. Il dit à un magistrat d'Am vage; he it + felt. vage; and he felt it. He said to a magistrate of Am- été l'exécuteur de ses sentences sur des criminels been the executioner of his sentences upon of-the criminals; the executioner of his own sentences upon criminals; et dans une débauche de table il a fait voir son debauch of table he has made to-see his a debauch at table he and in and in a exhibited his a dans l'Afri It there has in the Afri There are que des souverains qui versent le sang de leurs ca' of-the sovereigns who in Africa pour-out the blood of their who shed the blood of their sujets de leurs mains, mais ces monarques passent subjects of their hands, but these monarchs subjects with their own hands, but these monarchs pour des barbares. for of-the barbarians. generally accounted barbarians. pass are La mort d'un fils, qu'il The death of a son, whom it falloit corriger ou déshériter, rendroit la méwas-necessary to-correct or to-disinherit, would-render ought to have corrected or disinherited, would render the me Pe moire de Pierre odieuse, si le bien qu'il a fait à odious, if the good which he has done to odious, if the good he did to mory of Peter ter's memory ses sujets ne faisoit presque pardonner sa cruauté his subjects not made almost to-pardon his cruelty his subjects did not almost make us forgive his cruelty Tel étoit le Czar Pierre; et ses grands desseins Such † was the Czar Peter; n'étoient encore qu'ébauchés than sketched were but imperfectly conceived to-the Denmark aux rois de Pologne et de Danemarck contre un kings of Poland and of with the kings of Poland and enfant qu'ils all despised. all. against a Denmark against a Le fondateur de The founder of the Russian empire wished to be a conqueror; he believed he thought pouvoir le devenir sans peine, et qu'une guerre war to-be-able him to-become without trouble, and that a he could become one without difficulty, and that a war seins: l'art de la guerre étoit un art nouveau, qu'il besoin d'un port à l'orient de la Mer Baltique pour l'exécution de toutes ses idées. for the execution of all his ideas. the execution of all his designs. Il avoit besoin de la province de l'Ingrie, qui est of the province of the Ingria, which is the province of Ingria, which is au nord-est de la Livonie. Les Suédois en étoient to-the north-east of the Livonia. to the north-east of Livonia. |