The book Pictures of Swedish Life Or Svea And Her Children was written by author Sarah S Sarah Schoonmaker Baker Here you can read free online of Pictures of Swedish Life Or Svea And Her Children book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Pictures of Swedish Life Or Svea And Her Children a good or bad book?
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115 and stay, " and during the Thirty Years' War there was a return emigration of adventurers, as brave if not as ferocious, who had vindicated their nobility in the TYCHO BRAHE. thick of the fight beside the Swedish heroes of the time, and eventually became themselves Swedes. But, after hearing all this, you come upon certain simpler names, Brahe, Bonde, Sture, Trolle, Posse, Puhe, Thott, etc. " What are these ? " you ask in sur- prise. " They are the names of some of the old, old, old Swedish... noble families, " may be the reply. 116 PICTURES OF SWEDISH LIFE. There is no geological tree so high that it has not its root somewhere in the ground. There is no noble family that did not somewhere spring from honest simplicity which came to honor. These families date as nearly as possible back to the time " when Adam delved and Eve span, and there was then no gentleman. " We have named the titles that prevail in the lower strata of Swedish society. To the titles of a higher grade in familiar conversation, surnames give way, and shrink out of sight The Swedes say that there is a mania for titles in their country, and few men are sat- isfied to be simply Mr.
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