 | 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
...firmness which the intrepidity and valour of Charles XII. himself could not have surpassed. " I know very well," said he, " that the Swedes will have the advantage...; 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 date.... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1854 - 534 páginas
...Peipus. After so signal a defeat, it was as much as the czar could 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... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1854 - 524 páginas
...Peipus. After so signal a defeat, it was as much as the czar could 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1855 - 628 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1856 - 538 páginas
...contributed to their discomfiture. He heard of the disaster with philosophic calmness. "I know very well," said he, " that the Swedes will have the advantage...; but they will teach us at length to beat them." By redoubling his activity to repair losses, provide artillery, and profit by experience, he rendered... | |
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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. 
