Travels through Denmark and Sweden. To which is prefixed, A journal of a voyage down the Elbe from Dresden to Hamburg, Nide 2 |
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Sivu iii - Travels through Denmark and Sweden. To which is prefixed a journal of a voyage down the Elbe from Dresden to Hamburgh.
Sivu 247 - A compilation from earlier historical works made, in the form in which we have it, at the end of the thirteenth or the beginning of the fourteenth century and known by the name of WALTER OF COVENTRY (W.
Sivu 224 - These people, nearly as wild as their native mountains, still preserve their original harsh, rigid manners, aud style of character. Enjoying the same degree of freedom, they cannot bend their necks to the yoke of slavery; and though truly attached to their king, they look up to him more as a chief than a sovereign master. They are, however, always ready to defend his cause ; and the Dalecarlians of the present times have given proofs to Gustavus III. that they have not degenerated from their ancestors....
Sivu 78 - Longobardi. Vandali. Heruli, Gepidae, Teutones. Angli, Pictones, Dani. Sicambri aliique virtute clari et celebres populi olim exierunt.
Sivu 224 - Dalecarlia is more than eighty leagues in length, and sixty broad. There is very little arable land, and the population is not proportionate to such an extent of country, the number of inhabitants only amounting to about a hundred and twenty thousand. The principal, and indeed the only riches consist in mines and forges; but this country, interspersed as it is with lakes, forests, and torrents, may at least boast of giving birth to a brave. loyal people, ever attached to their sovereigns, though...
Sivu v - The inhabitants of the northern provinces, and of the most mountainous parts of the rest of the country, have alone preserved the purity of character which distinguished their ancestors. The Swedish peasant, however, in his present state, is still a more estimable being than those of his own class in any other country in Europe, at least in any of those we have hitherto visited.
Sivu 372 - ... horrible a crime to escape the punishment of death ; and that the honour of the Swedish name, together with the public safety, expressly demanded this justice. His majesty was sensibly touched at these sincere representations, and said with much sorrow, that if the law of reprisal necessarily required blood for blood, and if his intercessions, as the party concerned, were not sufficient to save the criminal who was so unfortunate as to strike the blow, he reserved to himself the power of pronouncing...
Sivu 352 - ... (somewhat above three hundred pounds). The secretary of the embassy, who was sent to pay him, met the senator in his carriage, and acquainted him with the business he was going upon. The senator said he need not proceed any further, but give him the four thousand plottes, which were in bank notes. The young man gave him the money, as any one else would have done in the same situation; but how great was his surprise and indignation, when his ambassador informed him the next morning, that the senator...
Sivu 161 - Stockholm once a-year, or at least once in two years, to perform the acts of devotion prescribed by their religion.* — ' The Swedes are infinitely better informed than other nations'; and all the peasantry, without any exception, know how to read. Gustavus III., who never neglected any thing, had reason, from this circumstance, to dread the effects of news from France, and the influence it might have upon the minds of his people : he therefore forbad mention being made of the French Revolution...
Sivu 173 - The Swedish troops are spirited and well principled ; the officers are brave, and the soldiers very like the French soldiers.