T F, I. 



170 



TEL 



who perpetrated the most tlai-rant acts 

 ted the people 111; -alion. 



Ihree Waldfttiidlo. iii I3U7, formed 

 headed h> 



abtmt its (ruth 



Danish kins 



:nilar 

 Gramma- 



n ooimt 01 



prominent part in 



uhmllv .-i 



had married daitiri 



thu league, though uithoiit takin 



it. Till 1 object n! these men wa 

 ti) inrn-iiM' their number*, Mini ' 

 op|M>rtiiiii1y lor delivering thci 



ii-id :mnn Oes*- 



ler 111' 'I'll 1.. \\1\ 



Hilton of I'ri. alter 



> mer \c\;;ln.us act, caused tin- dura I lint of Austria to be 



\ltorl'. and com- 



manded ti .anted the polo should un- 



liis lii'iul ; ^pectfoM: i Aus- 



tria. William Toll with Ins little boy happened one day 

 1o paw tlie pole without paying any regard to the ordois 

 ol'lhv haiiilt : and he was immediately aeiied and (alien 

 before Gcssicr. Tell had tho reputation of beinfr an excel- 

 lent hti-.vmaii, and ti.-s-.li-r ilevised a mode ol' ))iinislnnent 

 whioh should put his skill ton severe test. Ho oi 

 Toll's boy to be placed at a considerable distance from his 

 lather, and an apple to bo tixed on his head. A on 

 and arrows were handed to Tell, who, withoi.1. beincr 



.ed. contrived to iret two arrows, and lie was ordered 

 to shoot the apple from his own child's head. Tin 

 added, that if lie mi-.scd the apple, he should die. Tell 

 Miccet-ded in hitting: the apple, Gorier had expected that 

 Toll would kill en hurt his child, and in his disappointment 

 hi: tiled to lind out some pretext for pnnishintr the pre- 

 sumptuous peasant : he asked him why he had taken a 

 Tell boldly replied : ' It was intended for 

 Ihoe. n the lir.st had hit my child.' The Imilitf. delighted 

 with this opportunity of satisfying his veneeanee. ordered 

 Tell In be hound and to be conveyed in it bunt acro-> the 

 lake ol \Va!dstadteii to the castlc'a: .(.the resi- 



douee of Ge.'-sier. who himself accompanied his pn- 



tlie boat was on Iho lake, a storm arose, winch be- 

 came so violent, that tho i i- imahle to n> 



the boat, and proposed t to unfetter To, 



allow him to assist them, as he was known to be an ex- 

 perienced boatman and well acquainted with every part of 

 the lake. Tell wa- freed from his fetters, and talcing the '. 

 rudder in his hand, he steered ihe boat towards a part of 



eky shore, where a Mat shelf jutted out into Ihe lake. 

 When ho was near this spot, he seized his bow. jumped 

 upon the projecting rook, and with his foot pushed the 

 boat back into the waters. The storm however was abat- 

 inir. and ' 1 his men wore safely landed. Tell 



know the road by which the bailiff 1 bad to pass to Kiix- 

 imeht, and lay in wait for him in a narrow defile. When 

 GMsl' Toll shot him through the heart. This 



happened towards the end of the year l:j()7. Tin 

 was followed by a serie-, of wais between the S\\iss 

 and the Austriuns, whir.h did not terminate till ihe year 

 1499. 



The conduct of Tell was hiirhiy il 



friends, as they wished to avo. Land w ere not 



yet pi. -pared to cany their plan- -tmn. Alter this 



adventure '; i-ito his former obscurity. t 



said to h.i |iart in tin- battle of Morgart en, 



and to ha\e perished, in KtV>, in the river Sehiiohen during 



Tell ha* been repr- 

 libertv. by historians a- v, . 



if looked into more closely, will ap|iear in si ill I: 

 His refusal to pay homage 1o Ihe dncal hat of A I 

 indeed owintr to a noblw iudepend-. - rit ; but his 



obeyini; the inhuman command of Gessler to shoot the 

 app|e from his child's b. 

 teohnirs, n 

 him-lf. 



although in a moMure An net 

 'ir.-u instances, yet in the manner of I!; 

 Jittle bettor than murder. 



lint tin. truth of the story of Tell, notwilh-tandintr it* 

 bang i'onunein< 

 other pi.. 



modern hifltaciMitf^ v 

 von Miiller, refrard it Mk gWrtMMwMMy. Tlic M06 



. that in t 



id publisli 

 (' I'rlumdcii /, 

 I t here is no mention of si Gessl 

 '1 in the t 

 ns, Grimm mid Ideler I /' 





story. It 





 t the Lrronndwork <it' the 



]irocessions to \isil tin- 

 spot where Tell had . in the boat. r\n<l li- 



the ea ' the eelelirated olisipel of Tel 



the same spot, and it is stated t 



thsit year there were one hundred a-. n who had 



known Tell himself. His adventure is moreover told to 



mo effect by all the chroniclers who 

 after the alleirecl time of the ooeurronce. 



TKT.I.KK. \\I1.11K1.M AUKAHAM. son of Romamis 

 Teller, minister of St. Thomas's ehr.rch : ! 

 born in that city, ilth .lamiary, 1~H! 

 age of twenty-two he attracted Ihe at tent ion ol i i . I 

 Srieal world by a Latin Irnnslation of Konnieott on tho 



n Text : and sifter beinir for a year or t 

 at the Nioolai church, very unexpectedly I tin- 



aii]Hiiutment of professor of thoolotrv at Helmstiidt, from 

 the Duke of Hmnswiek. in 1701. On enterinz ii])on his 

 new office, he published ns an inaugural disputation his 

 Topice Soriptnrsi'," vhich was considered by Suporinleiu!- 

 ant Hahrdt so heterodox in its opinions, that it was with 

 difficulty he could he prevailed upon not to pro:. 

 Teller's appointment. Not del 01 red by this cin-imi 

 from expressing his own convictions. Teller published not 

 lonsr afterwards his Lohrbuch des < hrist lichen Glaubens." a 

 production that caused no little noise at the time, excitintr 

 violent disapprobation in some quarters, and obtaining 

 him friends in others, .hist before this work appear. 

 Iwd been invited to accept the professorship <>i 

 at Halle, then vacant by the death of liaumirarten. and lie 

 deelined it out of rezard towards his patron the Duke. Hi.' 

 the persecution he continued to experience from tin 

 whom his opinions had rendered him obnoxious i 

 his re-idence at Helmstiidt so disagreeable, that i! 

 without the least reluctance he ' it. about throe 



years afterwards. 17'i~. for Herlin. with the appoinfnii 

 Obeii -Kath' and Dean of Coloirne. While it 



ill him from their immediate nltsieks. the distin 



red upon ' 

 4MMUMkt and nt the same lime he him 



ringu 



He 



I duti 

 to applv to his tl 



continued 



'ti in 

 The \a--l number of sermons and va: 



publii 



(heolot,'ical writinjrs published by him. a' test not only his in- 

 dustry, bnl ;.. inline reh 

 although 1 '. '-vailed ; 



lid those '. 

 upon "ts than upon i 



the 

 the 

 the 



iction to the founer.' () 



teacher of vi-!iiri<m. but as a man i 

 in private life than in bis public 

 in Himself that conduct v 



ihem. 



nnd 



mol.iy h'- 

 ; for though he 



n'st M|I to the time 

 ntly worn out in bod-. 



