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His funds were not prodigally wasted on capricious and ill-examined schemes, nor refused to beneficial though costly improvements. They remained, therefore, competent to that expensive establishment which his reputation, added to a hospitable temper, had in some measure imposed upon him, and to those donations which real distress has a right to claim from opulence.
The composer of a set of lively and witty remarks on facts ill-examined, or incorrectly delivered, is not an historian. Pope. We cannot, I think, deny that name to the author of the "Life of Charles XII., King of Sweden." Boileau. No, certainly. I esteem it the very best history that this age has produced.
His funds were not prodigally wasted on capricious and ill-examined schemes, nor refused to beneficial though costly improvements. They remained, therefore, competent to that expensive establishment which his reputation, added to a hospitable temper, had, in some measure, imposed upon him, and to those donations which real distress has a right to claim from opulence.
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