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Download or read book The King s Ring Being a Romance of the Days of Gustavus Adolphus and the Thirty Years War Translated From the Swedish of Zacharias Topelius Classic Reprint written by Sophie Hrwall and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The King's Ring, Being a Romance of the Days of Gustavus Adolphus and the Thirty Years War, Translated From the Swedish of Zacharias Topelius The surgeon was born in a small town of East Bothnia, the same day as Napoleon I., August 15th, 1769. I well remember the day, as he always used to celebrate it with a little party of relatives and a dozen children; and as he was very fond of the latter, we were allowed to make as much noise as we pleased, and throw everything into absolute confusion on this anniversary. It was the pride of the surgeon's life that he was born on the same day as the Great Conqueror, and this coincidence was also the cause of several of his important experiences. But his pride and ambition were of a mild and good-tempered kind, and quite different from the powerful desires which can force their way through a thousand obstacles to attain an exalted position. How often does the famous one count all the victims who have bled for his glory on the battlefield, all the tears, all the human misery through which his way leads to an illusionary greatness, perhaps, doomed to last a few centuries at most? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Download or read book Gustav Adolfs Page Classic Reprint written by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Gustav Adolfs Page IF in this age of indiscriminate writing a book by a hith erto unknown author appears, a reader may well hesitate before taking it up. But when he learns that the author is a man almost past middle life, a man of ripe scholarship, of high aspirations, and - what is becoming rarer among us from day to day of literary conscience, and when he knows that the volume was not sent out with the customary beating of drums and flourish of trumpets, but was left to make its own way in the estimation of the public, or to be forgotten, the attention of every lover Of truth and of letters is arrested. Nor is it surprising that the first fruit of such a man should be a masterpiece. Huttens Letzte Tage by Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, first published in 1871, was not Meyer's first publication, for a volume Of poems had preceded it by a few years; but it was the first that reached the public, - the first, moreover, in which Meyer had displayed his remarkable power of expression. Since then the great theme of nearly all his books has been a patriotic one: the hero battling for his fatherland. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Lion of the North a Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus written by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lion of the North: A Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.
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Download or read book The Lion of the North a Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus Complete with Original and Classics Illustrated written by G. A. Henty and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are nowadays called upon to acquire so great a mass of learning and information in the period of life between the ages of twelve and eighteen that it is not surprising that but little time can be spared for the study of the history of foreign nations. Most lads are, therefore, lamentably ignorant of the leading events of even the most important epochs of Continental history, although, as many of these events have exercised a marked influence upon the existing state of affairs in Europe, a knowledge of them is far more useful, and, it may be said, far more interesting than that of the comparatively petty affairs of Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes.Prominent among such epochs is the Thirty Years' War, which arose from the determination of the Emperor of Austria to crush out Protestantism throughout Germany. Since the invasion of the Huns no struggle which has taken place in Europe has approached this in the obstinacy of the fighting and the terrible sufferings which the war inflicted upon the people at large. During these thirty years the population of Germany decreased by nearly a third, and in some of the states half the towns and two-thirds of the villages absolutely disappeared.The story of the Thirty Years' War is too long to be treated in one volume. Fortunately it divides itself naturally into two parts. The first begins with the entry of Sweden, under her chivalrous monarch Gustavus Adolphus, upon the struggle, and terminates with his death and that of his great rival Wallenstein. This portion of the war has been treated in the present story. The second period begins at the point when France assumed the leading part in the struggle, and concluded with the peace which secured liberty of conscience to the Protestants of Germany. This period I hope to treat some day in another story, so that you may have a complete picture of the war. The military events of the present tale, the battles, sieges, and operations, are all taken from the best authorities, while for the account of the special doings of Mackay's, afterwards Munro's Scottish Regiment, I am indebted to Mr. J. Grant's Life of Sir John Hepburn.
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