Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . a member of the Paris academy, he sent to that learned body a chart ofthe Caspian, which had been taken by his directions, and he always receivedwith pleasure, the volumes of their memoirs, which were regularly transmittedto him. The colossal equestrian statue of Peter the Great, an engraving of which isplaced on the previous page, is
Illustrated biography; or, Memoirs of the great and the good of all nations and all times; comprising sketches of eminent statesmen, philosophers, heroes, artists, reformers, philanthropists, mechanics, navigators, authors, poets, divines, soldiers, savans, etc . a member of the Paris academy, he sent to that learned body a chart ofthe Caspian, which had been taken by his directions, and he always receivedwith pleasure, the volumes of their memoirs, which were regularly transmittedto him. The colossal equestrian statue of Peter the Great, an engraving of which isplaced on the previous page, is erected at St. Petersburgh, in the square oppo-site the Isaac bridge, at the western extremity of the admiralty. It stands on ahuge block of granite, upward of three hundred tons in weight, which was con-veyed from a marsh, at a distance of four miles from St. Petersburgh. This mon-ument of bronze was said to have been cast at a single jet, from a design byFalconet, a French architect. The head was modelled by Mademoiselle Calot,a female artist of great merit, and is admitted to be a strong resemblance ofPeter. The height of the figure of the emperor is eleven feet; that of thehorse, seventeen feet, and the weight in metal of the group nearly twenty tons. House in which Peter the Great lived while in Holland. CHARLES XII. 231 CHARLES XII. CHARLES XII., of Sweden, was born June 27th, 1682. From his earliestyears he glowed to imitate the heroic character of Alexander ; and, in hiseagerness to reign, he caused himself to be declared king at the age of fifteen,and at his coronation boldly seized the crown from the hands of the archbishopof Upsal, and set it on his own head. His youth seemed to invite the attacksof his neighbors, of Poland, Denmark, and Russia: but Charles, unawed bythe prospect of hostilities, and though scarce eighteen, wisely determined toassail his enemies one after the other. He besieged Copenhagen, and by hisvigorous measures, so terrified the Danish monarch
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