The History of Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, Surnamed the Great: To which is Prefixed An Essay on the Military State of Europe, Containing the Manners and Customs in the Early Part of the Seventeenth Century, Volume 2 |
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Page 457 - Seeing it is a thing well known to all men, that there ought to be a communication of concerns among friends, whether in prosperity or adversity ; it cannot be but most grateful to us, that your Majesty should vouchsafe to impart unto...
Page 205 - ... but then no human being could conceive that matters should have advanced, with so amazing rapidity, to such extraordinary lengths. Therefore inform your senate that means must be devised whereby to check this impetuous Visigoth in the career, of his victories, which may prove, in the conclusion, as fatal to us as to the emperor and the elector of Bavaria.
Page 175 - He always behaved gallantly in the field ; and when the king wanted to regale...
Page 237 - Q expression, inasmuch as his anger was only momentary, and the amends he made to those whom he had chagrined, more than repaid them, for the transitory uneasiness of a slight mortification. " Perhaps," says Mr. Harte, " one cannot defend him better than by inserting the very words of his own apology to his Generals at a council of war.
Page 457 - Hamilton, matter of the horfe to the moft ferenc king of Great Britain, out of his zeal for the public good, and for acquiring eternal fame, hath...
Page 237 - ... of a Croatian ; yet without going further than admonishing and advising you, I have discarded no man, but, on the contrary, have kept you all about my person, and have more or less esteemed you every one.
Page 17 - Leipzic, as described by Harte : — " The two armies being now within three miles of each other, his Majesty, the evening before the battle, assembled all the Generals, and having ranged them round him in a circle in the midst of the plain, (for the Swedes lay that night in the open air,) told them plainly, since he discovered a spirit of resolution in their countenances, that they were to-morrow...
Page 36 - ... me all at once, and compelled me to enter into a general engagement, wherein, after a long and...
Page 327 - God's name, to convey me no more letters like your laft ; for if you continue a practice of this nature, you will bring the...