...and undaunted. Inflexible toward others as well as toward himself ; rating at nothing the fatigues of his subjects any more than his own ; rather an...his life ought to be a lesson to kings how much a pacif1c and happy government is preferable to so much glory. — History of Charles XII. VONDEL, JOOST...

...thirty-seventh year ; who must, to quote the language of his celebrated biographer, be considered " rather an extraordinary than a great man, and more worthy to be admired than imitated." Suspicions were very generally entertained at the time, that Charles was shot by one of his own officers,...

...too little regarded either his own life and labors, or those of his subjects: an extraordinary rather than a great man, and more worthy to be admired than imitated. From the history of his life however, succeeding kings may learn that a quiet and happy government...