 | 1762 - 570 páginas
...could do to ftand his ground : I know very well, faid he, that the Swcdts will have the advantage of us a considerable time, but they will teach us at length to beat them. HAVING provided for the prefent emergency, and ordered recruits to be raifed on every fide, he repaired... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1834 - 344 páginas
...intrepidity and valour of Charles XII. himself could not have surpassed. " I know very well," said he, " that the Swedes will have the advantage of us for...; but they will teach us at length to beat them." His first object was to prevent Charles from following up the blow ; and for this purpose he despatched... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1846 - 922 páginas
...ignominious defeat, though the czar bore it with the greatest philosophy. " I know very well," he said, " that the Swedes will have the advantage of us for...; but they will teach us at length to beat them." On the occasion of this defeat, the priests composed a prayer to St Nicholas, which was publicly offered... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 560 páginas
...strength till they have been fairly struck to the earth. " I know very well," he says in his journal, " that the Swedes will have the advantage of us for...; but they will teach us at length to beat them." And at a later period he says : — " If we had obtained a victory over the Swedes at Narva, being,... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1854 - 454 páginas
...opponents with great slaughter. " I know very well," said Peter, on receiving news of the defeat, " that the Swedes will have the advantage of us for...; but they will teach us at length to beat them." The prediction began to be verified near the spot where it was uttered, and within four years of its... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1854 - 534 páginas
...to stand his ground. " I know very well," said he, " that the Swedes will have the advantage of us a considerable time, but they will teach us at length to beat them." Having provided for the present emergency, and ordered recruits to be raised on every side, he repaired... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1854 - 524 páginas
...do to stand his ground. " I know very well," said he," that the Swedes will have the advantage of us a considerable time, but they will teach us at length to beat them." Having provided for the present emergency, and ordered recruits to be raised on every side, he repaired... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1854 - 622 páginas
...result to the right саш, the ignorance and barbarism of his subjects, he said : — " I know ve» , well that the Swedes will have the advantage of us for a cousiderabl time ; but they will at length teach us to become conquerors." Thu ignorant Russians, unable... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1855 - 628 páginas
...attributing the result to the right cause, the ignorance and barbarism of his subjects, he said : — " I know very well that the Swedes will have the advantage of us for a considerable tiine ; but they will at length teach us to become conquerors." The ignorant Russians, unable to account... | |
 | John Lord - 1855 - 456 páginas
...hope of victory in the end. "I know very well," said he, "that the Swedes will have the advantage over us for a considerable time ; but they will teach us at length to beat them." Charles, on the other hand, was intoxicated with victory, and acquired that fatal presumption which... | |
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I know very well," he says in his journal, " that the Swedes will have the advantage of us for a considerable time; but they will teach us at length to beat them. 
