GERMINATING OF SEED--CATHERINE EMPRESS The chief objection to a wise and beneficent despotism is that its creator is not immortal.

The trouble with the Alexanders and the Charlemagnes and the Peters is that the span of human life is too short for their magnificent designs, which fall, while incomplete, into incompetent or vicious hands, and the work is overthrown.

Peter's rest in his mausoleum at Sts.

Peter and Paul must have been uneasy if he saw the reigns immediately succeeding his own.

Not one man capable of a lofty patriotism like his, not one man working with unselfish energy for Russia; but, just as in the olden time, oligarchic factions with leaders striving for that cause which would best protect and elevate themselves.