. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . nday, after the drawing of thispicture, he took his last leave of his beloved study; and, being sensible of hishourly decay, retired himself to his bed-chamber; and that week sent at severaltimes for his most considerable friends, of whom he took a solemn anddeliberate farewell, and then dismissed them, as good Jacob did his sons, witha spiritual benediction. The Sunday following he appointed his servants,that if there were any business yet undone that concerned him or th
. Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits . nday, after the drawing of thispicture, he took his last leave of his beloved study; and, being sensible of hishourly decay, retired himself to his bed-chamber; and that week sent at severaltimes for his most considerable friends, of whom he took a solemn anddeliberate farewell, and then dismissed them, as good Jacob did his sons, witha spiritual benediction. The Sunday following he appointed his servants,that if there were any business yet undone that concerned him or themselves,it should be prepared against Saturday next; for after that day he would notmix his thoughts with anything that concerned this world. Nor did he ever;but, as Job, so he waited for the appointed day of his dissolution. He did much contemplate (especially after he entered into his sacredcalling) the mercies of Almighty God, the immortality of the soul, and thejoys of Heaven: and would often say in a kind of sacred ecstasy: Blessedbe God that He is God, only and divinely like himself. Authority: Izaak Walton. 71. ( AlJOLlIlUS, ; ul SWIlDKN. No. 33 The Death of Gustavus Adolphus, King of 1594. Died 6th November 1632, at theBattle of Liitzen. A T last the dreaded morning dawned; but a thick fog which laybrooding over the field delayed the attack till noon. Kneeling infront of his lines, the King offered up his devotions; the whole armyat the same moment, dropping on their knees, uplifted a morning King then mounted his horse, dressed in a buff jerkin (for his woundhindered him from puttingon armour), and rode through the ranks, rousing thecourage of his troops to a cheerful confidence. God with us was the battleword of the Swedes; that of the Imperialists was Jesus, Maria. About elevenoclock the fog began to lift and Wallensteins lines became visible. At thesame time, too, were seen the flames of Liitzen which the Duke had ordered tobe set
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