This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...the noblesse, who, after some successes over the Muscovites, and revolted Cossacks, obliged him to disband his army, and fixed the number of the Royal Guards at 1200 men, and refused to ratify the alliances he had concluded. He wished to institute an order of knighthood, but the Diet forbid the smallest distinction; ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...the noblesse, who, after some successes over the Muscovites, and revolted Cossacks, obliged him to disband his army, and fixed the number of the Royal Guards at 1200 men, and refused to ratify the alliances he had concluded. He wished to institute an order of knighthood, but the Diet forbid the smallest distinction; yet there existed, even among the Poles of that day, some few who endeavoured, but in vain, to restore the balance of the different members of the body politic; and the consideration which Poland still enjoyed abroad, was such, that foreigners of high rank solicited admission to the rank of Polish nobility, the value of which, partly, it may be said, arose from its abuses; for the Diet having arrogated to itself the right of granting letters of nobility and naturalization, it was no easy thing to obtain them. Titles of nobility were more strictly prohibited than ever; so that, strange as it may seem, the aristocracy, if the nobles might so be called, became more democratic, as it became more powerful. The intolerance of the Jesuits brought on another revolt of the Cossacks; and in 1648, John Casimir, brother of Wladislas, mounted the throne. His reign is a tissue of anarchy and misfortune; overrun by Swedes, Cossacks, Tartars, and Muscovites, a prey to religious animosities, Poland was entirely degraded from her former condition. Even the successes of Czarniecki, and Lubomirski, who drove the Swedes beyond the Baltic, failed of affording permanent relief. In 1652, the liberum veto was pronounced for the first time in the Diet, which, by annulling all its acts, reduced the Legislature and Government to a mere shadow. This principle of unanimity was introduced to favour the smaller nobles, who felt their individual importance increased, by the pow...
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