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 IN THE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA. 123 they declared their readiness to receive into their chap. alliance any of the other Powers of Europe. " This great alliance did not carry with it so re- sistless a weight as to be able to execute justice by its own sheer force, and without the shedding of blood ; but it was a miglity engine of war.