, to the peace of Passarowitz, in
1718,--the battle of Cutzka, in 1739, and the treaty between
Russia and Turkey in 1790.
"_Russia._--Tooke's Life of Catherine II., Voltaire's Czar
Peter.
"_Sweden._--Voltaire's Charles XII., also Norberg's Charles
XII.--in my opinion the best of the two.--A translation of
Schiller's Thirty Years' War, which contains the exploits of
Gustavus Adolphus, besides Harte's Life of the same Prince.
I have somewhere, too, read an account of Gustavus Vasa, the
deliverer of Sweden, but do not remember the author's name.
"_Prussia._--I have seen, at least, twenty Lives of
Frederick II., the only prince worth recording in Prussian
annals. Gillies, his own Works, and Thiebault,--none very
amusing. The last is paltry, but circumstantial.
"_Denmark_--I know little of. Of Norway I understand the
natural history, but not the chronological.
"_Germany._--I have read long histories of the house of
Suabia, Wenceslaus, and, at length, Rodolph of Hapsburgh and
his _thick-lipped_ Austrian descendants.
"_Switzerland._--Ah! William Tell, and the battle of
Morgarten, where Burgundy was slain.
"_Italy._--Davila, Guicciardini, the Guelphs and
Ghibellines, the battle of Pavia, Massaniello, the
revolutions of Naples, &c. &c.
"_Hindostan_--Orme and Cambridge.
"_America.
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