Ingerstein Hall and Chadwick Rise: A Story of the Thirty Years' WarTinsley Bros., 1878 - Great Britain |
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Ingerstein Hall and Chadwick Rise: A Story of the Thirty Years' War, Volumes 1-3 James Routledge No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 75 - The sports began each day in such manner, and such sort, as had well-nigh persuaded me of Mahomet's paradise. We had women, and indeed wine too, of such plenty as would have astonished each sober beholder. Our feasts were magnificent, and the two royal guests did most lovingly embrace each other at table.
Page 242 - Cholmly come to me this day, and tells me the Court is as mad as ever; and that the night the Dutch burned our ships the King did sup with my Lady Castlemaine, at the Duchess of Monmouth's, and there were all mad in hunting of a poor moth.
Page 75 - The sports began each day in such manner and such sort, aa well nigh persuaded me of Mahomet's paradise. We had women, and indeed wine too, of such plenty, as would have astonished each beholder. Our feasts were magnificent, and the two royal guests did most lovingly embrace each other at the table.
Page 6 - ... in that case bring forth for the good of such as are present that which shall cause them for ever after from the bottom of their hearts to pray, " O let us die the death of the righteous, and let our last end be like theirs.
Page 49 - The atrocities which had been committed in this war were unexampled. In the storming of Magdeburg, the soldiers had amused themselves, as a relaxation from their wholesale horrors perpetrated on the adults, with practising tortures on children. One man boasted that he had tossed twenty babies on his spear ; others they roasted alive in ovens ; and others they pinned down in various modes of agony, and pleased themselves with their cries as they sat and ate. Writers of the time describe thousands...
Page 27 - No light or trivial cause," said he, " induces me to involve myself or you in this new and dangerous war. God is my witness that / have not sought the contest. But the emperor has supported my enemies, persecuted my friends and brethren, trampled my religion in the dust, and stretched his ambitious hand to grasp my crown. The oppressed states of Germany call loudly to us for aid, and, by the help of God, IT SHALL be afforded them.
Page 192 - They who survive me," added he, " for I, like others, must expect to feel the stroke of mortality, are, on my account, and for many other reasons, real objects of your commiseration:— they are of the tender and defenceless sex, — a helpless mother who wants a guide, and an infant daughter who needs a protector ! — Natural affection forces these lines from the hand of a son and a parent."(l) The death of the king of Sweden presaged great alterations in the state of Europe.
Page 76 - I think the Dane hath strangely wrought on our good English nobles; for those whom I never could get to taste good liquor, now follow the fashion and wallow in beastly delights. The ladies abandon their sobriety, and are seen to roll about in intoxication.
Page 98 - let us not imitate the barbarity of the Goths, our ancestors, who rendered their memory detestable by abusing the rights of conquest in doing violence to humanity, and destroying the precious monuments of art.
Page 27 - He has supported my enemies, persecuted my friends and brethren, trampled my religion in the dust, and even stretched his revengeful arm against my crown. The oppressed states of Germany call loudly for aid, which, by God's help, we will give them.