Citations:autocratrix


 * 1) A female autocrat.
 * 2) * 1791, Horace Walpole, Letter to the Miss Berrys (Berkeley Square, Sunday, March 27, 1791):
 * Oh! now are you all impatience to hear that message; I am sorry to say that I fear it is to be a warlike one. The Autocratrix swears, d—n her eyes! she will hack her way to Constantinople through the blood of one hundred thousand more Turks, and that we are very impertinent for sending her a card with a sprig of olive.
 * 1) * 1811, David Hume, The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the Revolution in 1688, pages 189–190:
 * Catharine, it was said, was about to he crowned empress of Taurida, and to be declared protectress or autocratrix of the nations of Tartars.c
 * 1) * 1838, Henry Peter Brougham and Vaux, Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham, upon Questions Relating to Public Rights, Duties, and Interests; with Historical Introductions, and a Critical Dissertation upon the Eloquence of the Ancients, pages 658–659:
 * “Faithful to these principles,” (continued this half-sermon, half-romance, and half-state-paper) “they will only study the happiness of their people, the progress of the peaceful arts, and attend carefully to the interests of morality and religion, of late years unhappily too much neglected” — here, again, following the example of the Autocratrix Catherine — the spoiler of Poland, — who, having wasted and pillaged it, province after province, poured in hordes of her barbarians, which hewed their way to the capital through myriads of Poles, and there, for one whole day, from the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof, butchered its unoffending inhabitants, unarmed men, and women, and infants; and not content with this work of undistinguishing slaughter, after the pause of the night had given time for cooling, rose on the morrow, and renewed the carnage, and continued it throughout that endless day; and after this, a Te Deum was sung, to return thanks for her success over the enemies, that is, the natives, of Poland.
 * Tenderly yours,
 * J.A.
 * 1) * 1838, Henry Peter Brougham and Vaux, Speeches of Henry Lord Brougham, upon Questions Relating to Public Rights, Duties, and Interests; with Historical Introductions, and a Critical Dissertation upon the Eloquence of the Ancients, pages 658–659:
 * “Faithful to these principles,” (continued this half-sermon, half-romance, and half-state-paper) “they will only study the happiness of their people, the progress of the peaceful arts, and attend carefully to the interests of morality and religion, of late years unhappily too much neglected” — here, again, following the example of the Autocratrix Catherine — the spoiler of Poland, — who, having wasted and pillaged it, province after province, poured in hordes of her barbarians, which hewed their way to the capital through myriads of Poles, and there, for one whole day, from the rising of the sun, to the going down thereof, butchered its unoffending inhabitants, unarmed men, and women, and infants; and not content with this work of undistinguishing slaughter, after the pause of the night had given time for cooling, rose on the morrow, and renewed the carnage, and continued it throughout that endless day; and after this, a Te Deum was sung, to return thanks for her success over the enemies, that is, the natives, of Poland.
 * Tenderly yours,
 * J.A.
 * Tenderly yours,
 * J.A.