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And after another cordial grasp, he added gayly: "But if you expect to stay in Sweden until I have married Clotilde, you may begin building and even planting there, for I swear to you that you shall stay long enough for either purpose." "Is it possible that you do not love her?" said Lucan in a half whisper.
Monks resort to this monastery from Norway and Sweden, and other countries; but principally from Iceland. It often happens that many barks are detained here ail the winter, by the sea becoming frozen over.
We have now entered upon the movement which broke the power of the Papacy which swept Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, England, Scotland, into the stream of revolution, and gave a new direction to the spiritual history of mankind. You would not thank me if I were to take you out into that troubled ocean.
* In the reign of king William, when the English and Dutch were engaged in a war against France, the northern powers of Sweden and Denmark attempted to carry on the French commerce, under the shade of neutrality; but the Dutch and English joined in seizing the vessels that were thus employed.
XXXIV. Those of this temperament attend to the slightest irritations or sensations, and immediately exert themselves to obtain or avoid the objects of them; they can at the same time bear cold and hunger better than others, of which Charles the Twelfth of Sweden was an instance.
Sweden, Denmark, the Hanse Towns, were in harmony with France, Holland, Savoy, and the whole Protestant force of Germany a majority both in population and resources of the whole empire. What army, what combination, what device, what talisman, could save the House of Austria, the cause of Papacy, from the impending ruin?
The armistice, which terminated on August 10, preceded the opening of the third part of the campaign in which Russia and Prussia were joined by Austria and Sweden, and, after gradually drawing closer round the main French position in Saxony, finally inflicted a crushing defeat upon Napoleon at Leipzig in the middle of October.
Sumner called on her in the forenoon, and she said at once: "I suppose you have heard the news, and that you are glad of it. So am I. Mr. Lincoln told me he expected to remove him before I left Washington." Sumner resembled Charles XII. of Sweden in this: there is no evidence that he ever was in love.
"Look, Gerda," said Lieutenant Ekman, as their launch steamed the next morning toward a barren island off the east coast of Sweden, "do you see a child on those rocks below the lighthouse?" Gerda looked eagerly where her father pointed. "Yes, I think I see her now," she said, after a moment. Birger ran to the bow of the boat. "Come up here," he called. "I can see her quite plainly.
After Dinner, the following Toasts were drank by the Company: 1. The United States of America. His most Christian Majesty. The United Netherlands. The king of Sweden. The American Army. The Fleet and Armies of France, which have served in America. The Memory of those Heroes who have fallen for our Freedom. May our Country be grateful to her military children.
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