Which is a superlative quality in soldiers.

Good in Nations too, within limits; and much a distinction in the Russian Nation: rare, or almost unique, in these unruly Times.

The Russians have privately had their admirations of Friedrich, all this while; and called him by I forget what unpronounceable vernacular epithet, signifying "Son of Lightning," or some such thing.

[Buchholz, _Neueste Preussisch-Brandenburgische Geschichte_ (1775), vol ii.

(page irrecoverable).] No doubt they are proud to have a stroke of service under such a one, since Father Peter Feodorowitsh graciously orders it: the very Cossacks show an alertness, a vivacity; and see cheery possibilities ahead, in Countries not yet plundered out.