"Polander" Quotes from Famous Books
... Casimir (1609-1672), Jesuit, cardinal, and king, was a Little-Polander, not to say a pro-Cossack, and suffered in consequence. At the time of his proclamation as King of Poland, November, 1649, Poland was threatened by an incursion of Cossacks. The immediate cause was, or was supposed to be, the ill treatment which [Bogdan Khmelnitzky] a Lithuanian ... — The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron |