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interesting eras of modern history, and confine all your reading to that period to begin with, in the course which I am now recommending), do not but consult only the most authentic histories, letters, memoirs, and them, with all that caution and distrust which Lord Bolingbroke The next period worth your particular knowledge, is the treaty.html">Treaty of the succession of the House of Bourbon to the crown of Spain. Pursue that in that occasion, the two or three most authentic ones, and particularly come the Treaties of Nimeguen and Ryswick, postscripts in, a manner to light thrown upon them by the publication of many authentic and original the then triumphant Lewis the Fourteenth, astonished all those who viewed accounted for by those who knew the state of the kingdom of Spain, as The interval between the conclusion of the peace of Ryswick, and the interesting one. Every week of it almost produced some great event. will, and the acceptance of it by Lewis the Fourteenth, in violation of the Fifth quietly and cheerfully received in Spain, and acknowledged as to dethrone him. I cannot help making this observation upon that than prudence and sound policy; for Lewis the Fourteenth gratified his true interest of France; which would have acquired much more solid and the footing of the second partition treaty; and I think it was fortunate influence his Bourbon posterity in Spain; he knew too well how weak.html">weak the princes. The Memoirs of Count Harrach, and of Las Torres, give a good the death of that weak King; and the Letters of the Marachal d'Harcourt, .

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