The History of Charles the Twelfth, King of Sweden: A New Translation, from the Last Paris EditionAndrus and Judd, 1833 - 276 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 204 - These sixty old veterans accordingly repaired the next morning to Varnitza, having nothing in their hands but long white rods, the only arms of the janissaries when they are not at war ; for the Turks regard as a barbarous custom...
الصفحة 101 - I have not done him so much injury as you have done his master ; you have taken from him a kingdom, I have taken from this fellow nothing but a turkey." The King gave the peasant ten ducats with his own hand, and pardoned the soldier for the wit and boldness of his reply ; saying to him, " Remember, friend, that if I have taken a kingdom from Augustus, I have kept nothing to myself.
الصفحة 249 - what has the bomb to do with the letter I am dictating to you ? Go on.
الصفحة 207 - These they employed to good service ; they fired through the windows almost close upon the Turks, of whom, in less than half a quarter of an hour, they killed two hundred. The cannon still played upon the house ; yet, as the stones were very soft, they only made some holes, but demolished nothing.
الصفحة 197 - The sultan, enraged, convoked an extraordinary divan, and, what very seldom happens, spoke himself on the occasion. His speech, according to the translation then made of it, was as follows : — " I have scarce known the king of Sweden but by his defeat at Pultowa, and by the prayer he preferred to me, to grant him an asylum in my dominions. I have not, I believe, any need of him ; nor any reason either to love or fear him : notwithstanding, without consulting any other motive than the hospitality...
الصفحة 112 - This man, who never befieged a town which he did not take, nor fought a battle which he did not gain, was at St.
الصفحة 273 - ... any more than his own ; rather an extraordinary than a great man, and more worthy to be admired than imitated.
الصفحة 55 - O thou, who art our perpetual comforter in all our adversities, great St. Nicholas, infinitely powerful, by what sin have we offended thee, in our sacrifices, kneelings, bowings, and thanksgivings, that thou hast thus abandoned us? We implored thy assistance against these terrible, insolent, enraged, dreadful, unconquerable destroyers, when, like lions and bears robbed of their young, they fell upon, terrified, wounded, and slew by thousands, us who are thy people.
الصفحة 205 - Sparre; and seeing that all his soldiers were taken prisoners before his eyes, he said, with great composure, to these three officers, " Come let us go and defend the house; we will fight," adds he with a smile, "pro arts et focis.
الصفحة 209 - He regarded the janissaries with a smiling countenance ; and they carried him off crying " Alia," with an indignation mixed at the same time with respect. His officers were taken at the same time and stripped by the Turks and Tartars. It was on the 12th of February, 1713, that this strange event happened, which was followed with very singular consequences.* * M.