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father, has saved the Rufsian people from no lefs 2 
misery ; but in a more surprising manner *. As in- 
ternal deseases are most fatal, no danger nursed in 
the bosom ofa state is more dreadful than foreign 
invasion, External wounds are easier healed than 
internal injuries. Yet if we compare the liberatie 
on of Rufsia from the devastation of barbarous foe 
reign arms, with that wondérful deliverance from 
lurking internal confusion, wrought by the hand of 
Elisabeth, we fhall find the contrary. In healing 
our external wounds, the ficids and floods were no 
lefs impurpled with Rufsian than with Tartarian 
blood: but in these happy days, our gracious Elie 
sabeth, ina fhort space, has eradicated deep rooted 
evils without our ioils, and has healed our sick 
country, as with a word full of divine influence, 
** Rise upand walk, rise upand walk Rufsia; fhake 
** off your doubts ; full of joy and hope, be gay, be 
* happy, and be exalted.” 
It is the remembrance of the satisfaction that we 
then felt, hearers, that paints such images in our 
thoughts. But these are more animated when we 
reflect, that we are delivered not only from oppref. 
* The panegyrist alludes to the revolution in 1742, after the death 
of the emprefs Anna Ivanowna, Biron and his party placed the infant 
prince Iwan on the throne, in prejudice to the right of Elisabeth 
daughter to Peter the great. Elisabeth deposed Iwan without effue 
sion of blood, except what was spilt on the scaffold, which was incon~ 
siderable, if we compare it with the notions formerly entertained of ' 
the ferocity of the Rufsian people This princefs was so averse to 
blood that fhe abolifhed ali capital punithment; a plan of government 
which is pursued by the Great Catherine. 
