Novels and Miscellaneous Works
by Daniel Defoe
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217522458
Paperback|9780217522458
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: church being more subject there to the state than in any other part of Italy. For these reasons I took no pleasure in filling my memoirs of Italy with remarks of places or things; all the antiquities and valuable remains of the Roman nation are done better than I can pretend to, by such people who made it more their business; as for me, I went to see, and not to write, and as little thought then ot these memoirs, as I ill furnished myself to write them. CHAPTER in. ARRIVE AT VIENNA?ACCOUNT OF THE WAR IN GERMANY OF THE FAMOUS CONCLUSIONS OF LEIPSIC JOURNEY FROM VIENNA TO PRAGUE DREADFUL STORM OF MAGDE- BURGH, AND CRUELTIES OF THE IMPERIAL SOLDIERS 1 LEAVE THE EMPEROR'S SERVICE IN DISGUST, AND ARRIVE AT LEIPSIC ACCOUNT OF AFFAIRS THERE. I left Italy in April, and taking the tour of Bavaria, though very much out of the way, I passed through Munich, Passau, Lintz, and at last to Vienna. I came to Vienna the 10th of April, 1631, intending to have gone from thence down the Danube into Hungary, and by means of a pass which I obtained from the English ambassador at Constantinople, I designed to have seen all the great towns on the Danube, which were then in the hands of the Turks, and which I had read much of in the history of the war between the Turks and the Germans; but I was diverted from my design by the following occasion. There had been a long bloody war in the empire of Germany for twelve years, between the emperor, the Duke of Bavaria, the King of Spain, and the popish princes and electors on the one side, and the protestant princes on the other; and both sides having been exhausted by the war, and even the catholics themselves beginning to dislike the growing power of the house of Austria, 'twas thought all the parties were willing to make peace. ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217522458 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217522459 |
| Weight | 1.44 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.99 In |
| List Price | $28.94 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 446 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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