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 | | Bloody retribution was not long delayed, and struck the innocent with the guilty, perhaps the former more severely than the latter.\par It proceeded from a man who understood how to make use of the increasing hatred of the Cossacks for his purposes, and who was regarded by his countrymen as their ideal. |
 | | Bogdan Chmielnicki (Russian Chmel),born about 1595,died 1657,before whom all Poland trembled for several years, gave Russia the first opportunity of interfering in the Polish republic, and was a frightful scourge for the Jews. |
 | | Chmielnicki, brave in war and artful in the execution of his plans, impenetrable in his schemes, at once cruel and hypocritical, had been vexed by Jews, when he held the subordinate position of camp secretary (Pisar) of the Cossacks subject to the house of Koniecpolski. |
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