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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Brilliant Madman

(The). Charles XII. of Sweden. (1682-1697-1718.)

“Macedonia's madman or the Swede.”

Johnson: Vanity of Human Wishes.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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