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Importance of the Poles in respect to other nations
In the number of nations who on the basis
of their national spirit prolong their existence
are the Poles. Throughout all countries, though
that nation occupied a middle station of the
nu second rate powers in the concerns of
Europe, but it wha occupied the first among the
Kingdoms of the Sclavonic races race. While
the eastern western tribe Sclavonic tribes
settle who inhabited Lusatia, Pomerania
Silesia Mecklenburg and Silesia, moreover
whole Kingdoms as Bohemia and Moravia
were subjugated by the Germans –
while those in the South acknowledged
the damnation of the Hungarians and the
Turks over themselves: and while Russia herself
so powerful at present groaned for two
centuries under the yoke of the Tartars,
who from Turkey stretched their
dominion over the whole eastern part
of Europe and the northern over Asia till China; – the
Poles alone among the Sclavonians remained unsubdued: were Polish Monarchs were umpires
among their Sclavonian princes declared
after laws to them: and in and as late as the already the seventeenth century
he conquered dictated laws in Moscow, and Zolkenoski their victorious
General held this entry into Warsaw with the captive
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