The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 75
Anthony. This advantagewas of slight duration, for the troops of Anthony attack-ing furiously those of Brutus, he was compelled to takeshelter in a wood. The soldiers that remained with himrefused to return to the combat, when Brutus, scorning tobend to the yoke of his adversary, separated himself… … ,...■-. .. . ■ CHARLES XII. Charles the Twelfth, King of Sweden, who, bysome authors, is surnamed the Alexander ; and, by others,the Quixote of the North, but who merited Ni cet exces dhonneur, ni cette indignite,Nor this indignity, nor that renown; was born on the 27th of June, 1682. He evinced…
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