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OF THE DEAD.
43
The Viht you made him immediately after that Insult was a
farther contempt, olfenhve to him, and both useless and dan-
gerous to yourielf.
CHARLES.
I feared no Danger srom it. — I knew he dürst not use the
Power s gave him to hurt me.
A L E X A N D E R.
If his Reientment, inthatinRant, had prevailed over his
Fear, as it was likely to do, you would have perkheddelerv-
edly by your Insolenct and Presumption. For my part, in-
trepid as I was in allDangers, which I thought it was necei-
lary or proper sor me to meet, I never put mysels one mo-
ment in the Power of an Enemy whom i had olfended. But
you had the Rashness os FoAy as well as os FAt-py/w. A sade
Opinion conceived os your Enemy's Weakness proved atlalt
your Undoing. When, inanswerto somereasonablepropo-
stions of Peace, sent to you bv the Czar, you laid, " Fkw
Zurr# /uw nZ dAylr/ü';" he replied
very juRlv, " tF? hk-e y
PFywryDnrjhr." And, doubtleis, you ought to
have been better acquainted with the khara&er os thatPrince.
HadPerhabeen governed by a when smade
v.*ar against it, I ihould have acfed more cautiou'*y, and not
have counted so much on the Superiority os my Troops, in
Valour and Discipline, over an Army commanded by a
King, who was so capable os inRru&ing them in all they
wanted.
CHARLES.
TheBattle of Narva, won by eight thouiand Swedes againR
sourscore thousandMuscovites, seemed to authorize my Con-
tempt of the Nation and their Prince.
ALEXANDER.
It happened that theirPrince was notpresent in thatBattle.
But he had not as yet had the time, which was necehäry to
rnRrucd his barbarous Soldiers. You gave him that time, and
he made so good ausc of it, that you found at Pultawathe
Moscovites become a difserent Nation. If you had followed
the Blow you gave them at Narva, and marched dire&ly to
Moscow, you might have deAroyed their Hercules in his
Cradle. But you suftered him to grow, till his Rrengthwas
nature, and then acbed as if he had been Rill in his
Childhood.
CHAR-
43
The Viht you made him immediately after that Insult was a
farther contempt, olfenhve to him, and both useless and dan-
gerous to yourielf.
CHARLES.
I feared no Danger srom it. — I knew he dürst not use the
Power s gave him to hurt me.
A L E X A N D E R.
If his Reientment, inthatinRant, had prevailed over his
Fear, as it was likely to do, you would have perkheddelerv-
edly by your Insolenct and Presumption. For my part, in-
trepid as I was in allDangers, which I thought it was necei-
lary or proper sor me to meet, I never put mysels one mo-
ment in the Power of an Enemy whom i had olfended. But
you had the Rashness os FoAy as well as os FAt-py/w. A sade
Opinion conceived os your Enemy's Weakness proved atlalt
your Undoing. When, inanswerto somereasonablepropo-
stions of Peace, sent to you bv the Czar, you laid, " Fkw
Zurr# /uw nZ dAylr/ü';" he replied
very juRlv, " tF? hk-e y
PFywryDnrjhr." And, doubtleis, you ought to
have been better acquainted with the khara&er os thatPrince.
HadPerhabeen governed by a when smade
v.*ar against it, I ihould have acfed more cautiou'*y, and not
have counted so much on the Superiority os my Troops, in
Valour and Discipline, over an Army commanded by a
King, who was so capable os inRru&ing them in all they
wanted.
CHARLES.
TheBattle of Narva, won by eight thouiand Swedes againR
sourscore thousandMuscovites, seemed to authorize my Con-
tempt of the Nation and their Prince.
ALEXANDER.
It happened that theirPrince was notpresent in thatBattle.
But he had not as yet had the time, which was necehäry to
rnRrucd his barbarous Soldiers. You gave him that time, and
he made so good ausc of it, that you found at Pultawathe
Moscovites become a difserent Nation. If you had followed
the Blow you gave them at Narva, and marched dire&ly to
Moscow, you might have deAroyed their Hercules in his
Cradle. But you suftered him to grow, till his Rrengthwas
nature, and then acbed as if he had been Rill in his
Childhood.
CHAR-