that you might reniemberjwhenyour favourite Gustavus Adolphus began and ended his reign ; but the anecdotes you mentioned to-day, that he never engaged in any battle without first praying at the head of his troops; that he used afterwards to thunder... Pneumanee: Or, The Fairy of the Nineteenth Century - Page 51by John William Cunningham - 1815 - 259 pagesFull view - About this book
| Sir John Carr - 1805 - 526 pages
...never engaged in any battle, without first praying at the head of his troops ; after which he used to thunder out, in a strong and energetic manner,...German hymn, in which he was joined by his whole army : the effect of thirty or forty thousand people thus singing together was wonderful and terrible. He... | |
| Sir John Carr - 1805 - 320 pages
...Adolphus never engaged in any battle, without first praying at the head of his troops; after which he used to thunder out, in a strong and energetic manner,...German hymn, in which he was joined by his whole army : the effect of thirty or forty thousand people thus singing together was wonderful and terrible. He... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1809 - 448 pages
...never engaged in any battle, without first praying at the head of his troops ; after which he used to thunder out, in a strong and energetic manner,...German hymn, in which he was joined by his whole army. The effect of thirty or forty thousand people thus singing together was wonderful and terrible. He... | |
| Pneumanee (fict.name.) - 1814 - 288 pages
...such an art. " By symbols, there was no doubt," Pneumanee said, " that you might reniemberjwhenyour favourite Gustavus Adolphus began and ended his reign...wonderful and terrible : all this, and so much more as you you mentioned of your hero to-day, would have required so many symbols to learn, that to a memory so... | |
| 1814 - 698 pages
...symbols there was no doubt,' Pneumanee said, ' that you might remember when your favourite Gustnvus Adolphus began and ended his reign ; but the anecdotes...was both wonderful and terrible : all this, and so uiuch more as you mentioned of your hero to-day, would have required so many symbols to learn, that... | |
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