| Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1806 - 498 pages
...benedictine abbey of St. Gall, where the neglected ancients had slumbered in tranquillity a thousand years. In the arsenal was exhibited, until the French revolutionists...occasioned by the same event, is the premature loss of John Caspar Lavater. The reviver or the inventor of the science of physiognomy received his death's wound... | |
| William Bingley - Europe, Southern - 1821 - 394 pages
...weighty armour of the ancient Swiss warriors ; and even the bow and arrow, with which William Tell is said to have shot the apple from the head of his son At Zuric, public education was, at this time, a concern of the state, and under the immediate protection... | |
| Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Italy, Northern - 1863 - 860 pages
...(erected in 1786) formerly occupied the spot from whence the intrepid archer aimed at the apple placed on the head of his son at the command of the tyrant Gessler; this was removed in 1861, and a Colossal statue of Tell, presented to Altorf by the riflemen of Zurich,... | |
| Appleton D. and co - 1870 - 788 pages
...first place is ALTORF (2 miles). It is celebrated as the scene of William Tell's exploit of shooting the apple from the head of his son at the command of the tyrant Gessler. The place where the tree stood to which his son was bound, and on which Gessler's hat was placed, is... | |
| Karl Baedeker (Firm) - Switzerland - 1873 - 616 pages
...riflemen of Zurich, is said to occupy the spot whence the intrepid archer aimed at the apple placed on the head of his son at the command of the tyrant Gessler. At the base is an inscription from Schiller's Tell. About 150 paces from this stands a fountain, with... | |
| Europe - 1878 - 724 pages
...first place is ALToiif(?6j miles). It is celebrated as the scene of \Villiam Tell's exploit of shooting the apple from the head of his son at the command of the tyrant Gessler. The place where the tree stood to which his son was bound, and on which üessler's hat was placed,... | |
| Lewis H. Bond - American fiction - 1879 - 266 pages
...country to paint a historical picture representing the patriot William Tell in the act of shooting an apple from the head of his son at the command of the tyrant Gesslen; that after several years of labor he produced a picture that was so true to nature that one... | |
| Europe - 1886 - 790 pages
...and ALTUBH (Hotels: Alder, Scldus*/), celebrated as the scene of William Toll's exploit of shooting the apple from the head of his son at the command of the tyrant Gessler. The place where the tree stood to which his son was bound, and on which Gessler's hat was placed, is... | |
| 1888 - 762 pages
...and ALTORF (Hotels: Alder, Schlussel), celebrated as the scene of William Tell's exploit of shooting the apple from the head of his son at the command of the tyrant Gessler. The place where the tree stood to which his son was bound, and on which Gessler's hat was placed, is... | |
| John Calvin Holbrook - Congregational churches - 1897 - 384 pages
...Alps, we reached the plain and saw the spot where, tradition says, William Tell shot, with his arrow, the apple from the head of his son at the command of the tyrant. Crossing Lake Lucerne, with Mt. Pilatus in the distance, we reached the city of that name, where I... | |
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