Stockholm During The Great Power Era
Stockholm during the Swedish Era of Great Power (1611-1718) is the period in the history of Stockholm when the city grew sixfold, many of its present streets were created, and its economy boomed.
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“He was begotten in the galley and born under a gun. Every hair was a rope yarn, every finger a fish-hook, every tooth a marline-spike, and his blood right good Stockholm tar.”
—Naval epitaph.
“And we ask this where truth is,
Of what use is valour and is worth?
For evil has conquered the race,
There is no power but in base men,
Nor any man whom the gods do not hate.”
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“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)