Show ilia iaia frair the ghe D a PRESENT EVENTS OF 01 continental europe 0 n tji oell otta oits 7 A i itt times roman era pra ane crusades Crua ades adea the guirty years the seven years yeara war and the M memorable em orab arab ae cam campaigns aiges ajio do not t to the MI gon don y of the best historians present moral phenomena so peculiar to the present age ape at i he hot hor horizon izart clouds a are rs banking banaio t itlie themselves 1 in i ee in dirk dark heavy misses which abich threaten to bust bast ba st every esery ever amenti m already a deep ominous boom ibb ibL F the sweep ofa ora of a laughty storm ahl 13 headd e ltd lad which if BO seeh heen providential interferes inter ferea will engulf everything within its reach in a vast tomb W hile hite fhe the once happy co is represent gin tin mcg g a vast scene of revolt carnag carnage massacre and destruction and a great gleat empire erected with so much toil tolland loiland and ce cemented with so much blood seems tos tou to be crum binig away he the poli teal feal cal cai barometer la Is rising and the compass needle in lle ule the lie ship of nations hat iotis lotis is hating in a manner t u of a terrible storm arom 1 tb the time timi thag thai a gie rie gret portion of conti europe and awl the tf isles tales were in vad edby the roman legions ketmany Get many france spain italy and other countries had to pas pass through great ordeals da during ring the 6 bo cailee called dark ages that is during a period drib ggut fiut years up bp to thi the greaf reformation by martin lither L ither mail thail clad vad cavallera llera in the capacity of bandits were infesting festin pe he hla hia hah roads an I 1 public streets and the iiii er peaceable burg burghe burgheim heis hees rj bad had tb shut themselves up iq in solid atone stone da d ellings with grated windows ard and he vy walls in order to be secure against the assaults of feudal times A rd d dis disgraceful lineage of buth but sut i lity robbers and murderers mur derera many a proud lo 10 lorland lor yand tand dand b J born dame bedizened bedizen ed with jewelry and rit D in carriages embraz em blazoned 0 ed with arms de 06 h d t kG randee and ani peasant alike madai made war var at vill will oa 00 own account and so en vogue ere spectacles of military array thau that no powerful chieftain movell move d without krit irit hout houf a retinue of 0 good lances beside him inured tovio to vio vi olence aleack AleA cF and bound to t i follow his banner hanner for tor nevial p I 1 it nv was a period of almost universal borrup and bru al norce force the profil profit spent their time in tournament s gallantry galli ar or in dhe the ahe wl d distractions of the chase while the fierce nobes alss ELSS assisted Isted and applauded by the benighted mul were plundering the thi peaceable portion of community te so that the strongest of arm aniL deepe st in fraud b ra re the palm of power arun aruT M P praise ige mong among the hi people ne rhe above e times designated generally in lix as those in which the thi so azy fleu flou ishad were soon mizi mini ab r e ev vents p a t s which h c tended to liri br iDall zali rall tia tabeh hd cwi ev evils 1 0 of f society ocie ocle to light and ta to 0 sh shaw oi that is one of the nosed anger fiand und and fearful vass Tass passions tons lons when once master of the mind pt scenes of bloodied blood bloodshed ded Aed t 4 classes freely paled not even evea the and it fa s glik tilt gmar Emar mark kd ld by morea morae than one that no came exists ta hut but what is known to those wor wot the thesa alered ered conclave often we a at i more expert td act in a melee an than W ate in the boy hoy aply office cu it was a fri ats arent alent occurrence to see di dignitaries nit aries arles espee especially i if y t the spanish cersy gersy feht the bl attles of mail marl clad warriors afi aff A prevailed and the eswa a i test fest tims are dyed with the depest de peat ty ade rie rip thus the thi depravity of those wll 0 profess etl eil zor to bs be ser str servants vanti of christ uk houses of aad not hot even the wives and daugh daught daughtry rs or osqui Vt if res reb respectable Pec tabie table bjur burghers ghers we were re hafe safe frog trog the figr of or dep ra ved id a ti ca the above Is founded on the testimony I 1 of or the the pope adrian VJ V bishop of augsburg r 4 of and hugo of Jon alance of the catholic church further add that of ali U the al and leading members of the cai cal profession but bev could read and many neither heard of nar nor non read lead the bible and ind W tho the book loerey by hearsay instead downs 11 a at cording to the principles of their divine master matter whom they professed tp to depre here on earth they pas passed seii seil thir th ir time in gambl gambi ng rig d inking swearing and in theli the perpetration pet ration of the most moat revolting crimes during the tac horrible campaign in tha the spanish netherlands ww the duke alba by order of king philip phiiip of span spain wab was ravaging that doomed country and hundreds 1 0 thousands of un 11 fo fortunate eople people ot of both iriti lexes were expiating their heresy either on the on theburn ingwood pile many of the bomin catholic clergy were hiu biu fiu figuring ring prominently lahe tall add and serried serrie ran ranks of spanish soldiery and ins U maidby good authority that count coult bg monto the prince of orange and olbers of I 1 the e nobility met mot either abruel death or were indiscriminately ostracised ostracized through h t mentality pe some fanatic priests itla ieli also aiso a well substantiated tact fact that thousands were put in close confinement and then theo burnt burli jt alive besetting by setting their prison orr on fire nire when r en the scream screams s of the wre wr fretchel etchel I 1 vic taj a richea riched reached the earsom ears earb of the duke alba ard avd bame ecclesiastic advisers an eye wit nebs ness relates that tb th 3 duke Dake remarked ik lt ua us see how boil long iong on these dogs dog a ivill will howl bowl 11 hereupon whereupon the co counting tinting the deada brads of their coluci with hib bih bli grace by expressing delight to hear bear the heretics buffer suffer their penalty the names and escutcheons of those men are branded w th the curse curs of nations and the once proud and po powerful spain has sunk into comparative insignificance while the trodden down netherlands bavy havy risen out of the ashes of their martyrs one of the most kingdoms of bf europe darin durin during daring the thirty years war which may be correctly cor recty considered the dramatic sequel of the great reformation R format loni ioni the followers of luther rallied round the banner of protestantism and sealed seated with their blood the testimony of their belief in the principles of the celebrated augustine monk bonky while the 9 or those who considered the pope ag as being be ingin invested with divine authority holding tha keys of st peter endeavored like ahmoud mahmoud Bl the most distinguished emperor in history by ra rapine pine dine slaughter 1 and desti destruction action to ablit obliterate e rate the ahe docar doctrines ines of luther lu her and establish moie firmly their own faith the exertions made by the belligerent partis io 0 o destroy life and property were enormous cities like that of ila lla magdeburg jia Magd eurg in Pt lissia were backed sacked and ana ani and ana the inhabitants thereof ether either massacred or reduced to beggary germany ivas waa a vast rast charnel house hoase and while triumphal chariots were taking the conque conquerors ors over scenes of dj devast blacken acken d with the smoke of buining burning in ruins 0 crimson w with ith the blood of glain slain soli soldiers diers kiers and civilians high mass was read and paeans wore were chanted in cathedrals in honor and praise of god for the great victory gained over the daunted heretics I 1 bu bal the waling waving of widows orphans and crippled men reached the ears of gustavus adolphus Adolp hup huy aing king of sweden a man wh wio win in reu respects sects may be compared to the roman emperor marcus aurelius a poten potentate tife i who wrid on account of his many vir virtues tubs was be lived by almost all nation options 3 and whose death cast a gloom over euro europe e and a great portion of africa and asia the mausoleum and monument erected by and wealth is nothing to the simple touching and truthful mem memorial rial ten Ven graved engraved upon the hearts of a grateful people aaa aua an I 1 bleared bli sied ia is that prince whose nob n aeo deo II 11 1 ty of mind is the charter of his bla rank a lity which repudiates vice winch which abhors the least deviation from virtue and that finds Is Isi I 1 sweetest feeke Weeke st and safest re repose pase in the tranquility rot fot of his hid own mind and in hi the remembran remembrance ci b 0 praiseworthy deeds blessed be then nobility 1 I of mind and add blessed be ih th it spirit which I 1 I 1 gards garos itself in love iove ove charty and generosity which looks even on error error with sweetest pity and has courteous and kind kidd words for all gustavus adolphus Adolp hus bus one of the martyrs ott oft of protect in that memorable struggle gie gle is one of those few princes whose memory has twisted itse f round the hearts of millions of the german nation it was hi high fi time that a chieftain of undaunted coura courage g e end endeavored elvored eav ored to stop the progress pro gres cres of the ther numberless marr challed hosts of the imperial army that like a mighty avalanche came cama sweeping ever every thing before it the holy S sye sie ei plotted 1 against ther thep saul invasion of that great northern king and rumors were afloat that the thle pope should or might imitate the exa example of gregory VI and anathematize the bold heretic leader eder but the swedish king wag waa I 1 bis his and the tan tar star of 0 pro bhone shone bright inthe in the hearns of the tha most it hits his han ban a etra ra zes zet ze ln in ats g aw ih lai 11 ata eta tle tie died ja jn 1030 1 at th ageos ageo age of 61 6 i |