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History of Charles XII.

king's arrival at Stralsund inspired them with fresh hopes.

The respect and admiration which they had formerly entertained for his sacred person, were still so strongly rivetted in the minds of his subjects, that the youths came from the country in crowds and voluntarily offered to enlist, though there were not a sufficient number of hands left to cultivate the lands.