The Life of Charles XII, King of Sweden: Translated From the French (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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9780267768394: The Life of Charles XII, King of Sweden: Translated From the French (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0267768397 ISBN 13: 9780267768394

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Excerpt from The Life of Charles XII, King of Sweden: Translated From the French

For a different reason are the names of bad princes remembered; it is as men preserve the remembrance of inundations, fires, and plagues.

Between tyrants and good kings, are conquerors, but nearest approaching to the first, and these have a shining reputation. Every one is desirous to know the minutest articles of their lives: and such is the weakness of man kind, that they behold any glorious mischief with admiration, and are better pleased to talk of the destroyer of an empire than of its founder.

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