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Szy Szuyski and warned by their national spirit
which repelled in in the middle ages scorned the
dictates of the German Roman Emporers, who claimed
the dominion over all the wa Christian Europe –
made their country the barrier of Christendom
against reiterated attacks of the Tartars and
the Turks followers of the Moslem. Already for the eleventh
twelvth century their valiant King Bolesłas
extended its conquests from do the polish Kingdom
from the Dnieper till to the Elbe: and ordered
the in to fix iron columns on the in both rivers
as a sign of his the frontiers of this his
country: and in as late as the seventeenth
century the Vales dictated laws in Moscow
which they took by force: and their General
Zolkiewski adorned his entry into Warsaw
with the captive Czar Szuyski. – This was Szuyski
the effect of the strength of their national spirit. See Sheet 3th
Their alliances with the French and assimilation in revolutions and character of the Poles.
The Poles while in power constantly stood on terms of
amity with the French. The amity was natural in
diplomacy since every nation ought to form
treaties with the remoter nations against the its
neighboursing powers. And that this principle
was just, and true, is sufficiently proved by subsequent events.
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