Excerpt from Austria: Vienna, Prague, Etc., Etc Another object that interested me in the church. Was the tomb of a Utraquist or Call: tine. The ruling idea with those people was the wine-cup. They bore it as an emblem on their banners, and after death had it carved on their tombs. Before these Wild zealots drove Sigismund's troops from the Vissehrad, no less than thirteen churches stood there. Only one now remains, and the fragment of what was once the wall of another, and which seemed to me like a few odd lines of a lost poem. Oh! It must have been sad work here, said my old sexton; the Hussites had no mercy at all. But brought dogs. And eagles With them, to fight against Christian men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.