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Page 7 - The disorders of the clergy, chiefly those of Germany, were represented in this manner to Eugenius IV. by Cardinal Julian. " These disorders," said he, " excite the hatred of the people against the whole ecclesiastical order, and should they not be corrected, it is to be feared lest the laity, like the Hussites, should rise against the clergy, as they loudly threaten us*.
Page 366 - ... many places hunger had overcome all repugnance to human flesh, and the tales of cannibalism handed down to us are of far too horrible a nature to be here repeated. The cup of human suffering was full even to overflowing, and the very aspect of the land was undergoing a rapid change. Forests sprung up during the contest, and covered entire districts, which had been in full cultivation before the war ; and wolves, and other beasts of prey took possession of the deserted haunts of men.
Page 225 - The imperial camp formed an irregular parallelogram, about four miles in length, and from one to two in breadth.
Page 285 - ... who had done well in the battle, and sternly punishing such as had been dilatory. During the winter he recruited and reformed his army, and in the spring, when he opened his last campaign, this was his pomp, as described by an eye-witness : " The train announced the man who, in power and splendor, vied even with the emperor himself. The procession consisted of fourteen carriages, each drawn by six horses ; twenty cavaliers of rank attended on Wallenstein's own person, and a hundred and twenty...
Page 151 - My object is to set bounds to the increasing power of a dangerous emoirfi before all resistance becomes impossible. Your children will not bless your memory if, instead of civil and religious freedom, you bequeath to them the superstitions of monks and the double tyranny of popes and emperors. We must prevent the subjugation of the Continent before we are reduced to depend upon a narrow sea as the only safeguard of our liberties ; for it is delusion to suppose that a mighty empire will not be able...
Page 171 - This nine days' defence," he says, " of an old rampart without artillery, proves how much determined soldiers can effect behind stone walls ; and is exceedingly valuable in an age that has seen first-rate fortresses, fully armed, surrender before any part of the works had been injured — often, indeed, at the very first summons.
Page 217 - ... the conclusion of a peace, he was to be confirmed in the possession of the duchy of Mecklenburg ; and that timely notice was to be given him, should it again be thought expedient to remove him from the command, he consented to lead the troops to action.
Page 181 - Wives were abused in the arms of their husbands, daughters at the feet of their parents ; and the defenceless sex exposed to the double sacrifice of virtue and life.
Page 191 - ... by skirmishers, while armies remained in reserve, literally to feed the fire, to come, like the wounded Curiatii, successively, instead of simultaneously, into action ; and above all, to save the fame of their mighty leader from too severe a shock whenever the goddess of fortune remained deaf to the prayers of her votaries, though uttered in loud peals of cannon and of...
Page 251 - ... who have gravely ascribed victories to the power of such weapons ? What, again, must be deemed of the military intelligence of an age which could tolerate the tactical puerilities founded on the presumed use of a toy which...