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History of Friedrich II of Prussia Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the History of Friedrich II of Prussia novel. A total of 239 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. I.by Thomas Carlyle.Book I. -- BIRTH AND PARENT
History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. I.by Thomas Carlyle.Book I. -- BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. -- 1712.Chapter I. -- PROEM: FRIEDRICH'S HISTORY FROM THE DISTANCE WE ARE AT.About fourscore years ago, there used to be seen sauntering on the terraces of S
- 201 About 9 at night, all the Austrians are rolling off, eastward, eastward.Prussians goading them forward what they could (firing not quite done till 10); and that all-important pommel of the saddle is indisputably won. The Austrians settled themselves, in a
- 202 "The Yorkes [Ex-Chancellor Hardwicke people] had long distasted this War:" yes, and been painfully obliged to hold their tongues: "but now,"within a month or so of the old King's death, "there was published, under Lord Hardwi
- 203 GELLERT. "And, on the whole, various reasons may be given why the Germans have not yet distinguished themselves in every kind of writing.While Arts and Sciences were in their flower among the Greeks, the Romans were still busy in War. Perhaps this is
- 204 KING (to Icilius, as we learn from a different Record). "That is quite another man than Gottsched!" (EXUENT OMNES.) The modest Gellert says he "remembered Jesus Sirach's advice, PRESS NOT THYSELF ON KINGS,--and never came back;" n
- 205 So generous are Nations.Marechal Duc de Belleisle was very wealthy: in Vernon Country, Normandy, he had estates and chateaux to the value of about 24,000 pounds annually. All these, having first accurately settled for his own debts, he, in his grand old w
- 206 On the third day, Loudon, looking into this thing, which he has not minded hitherto, finds it such a thing as he never dreamt of before.A thing strong as Gibraltar, in a manner;--which it will be terribly difficult to attack with success! For eight days m
- 207 "It was on AUGUST 19th [very eve of Friedrich's going into Bunzelwitz]that Romanzow,--Werner, for the sake of those poor Towns he holds, generally retiring without bombardment or utter conflagration,--had got hold of Corlin and of the River Pers
- 208 To these external phenomena I will at present only add this internal one: That an old Brother Officer of Warkotsch's, a Colonel Wallis, with Hussars, is now lying at Heinrichau,--say, 10 miles from Strehlen, and about 10 from Schonbrunn too, or a mil
- 209 "'The garrison of Almeida, before which place the whole Spanish Army had been a.s.sembled, surrendered to the Spaniards on the 25th [August 25th, as we have just heard], having capitulated on condition of not serving against Spain for six months
- 210 "For seven or eight years, there came no progeny, nor could come; about the eighth or ninth, there could, and did: the marvellous Czar Paul that was to be. Concerning whose exact paternity there are still calumnious a.s.sertions widely current; to th
- 211 Catharine. She was now detained in her Apartment 'by indisposition;'and did not leave it during the eight days the festivities lasted." This happened at the Country Palace, Zarskoe-Zeloe; and is a turning-point in poor Peter's History.
- 212 And no wisest Daun, not to speak of his O'Kellys and lieutenants, can, for the life of him, say where the real attack is to be, or on what hand to turn himself. Daun in person, I believe, is still at Tannhausen, near the centre of this astonis.h.i.+n
- 213 For supreme Bute, careless of the good news coming in on him from West and from East, or even rather embarra.s.sed by them, had some time ago started decisively upon the Peace Negotiation. "September 5th,"three weeks before that of Amoneburg, &q
- 214 Plenipotentiaries are named: "Fritsch shall be ours: they shall have my Schloss of Hubertsburg for Place of Congress," said the Prince. And on Thursday, December 30th, 1762, the Three Dignitaries met at Hubertsburg, and began business.This is th
- 215 History of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. XXI.by Thomas Carlyle.BOOK XXI.--AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF FRIEDRICH'S LIFE--1763-1786.Chapter I.--PREFATORY.The Twelve Hercules-labors of this King have ended here; what was required of him in World-History is
- 216 had, owing to absolute want of money, been the one recipe of the Great Elector in a similar case; and Time was then found to mean "about a hundred Years." Friedrich found that he must at once step in with active remedies, and on all hands strive
- 217 It was in Summer, 1762 (about three months after the above Letter from the King), that Rousseau made his celebrated exodus into Neufchatel Country, and found the old Governor so good to him,--glad to be allowed to shelter the poor skinless creature. And,
- 218 so called; saw Jena, retreat of Moscow; saw the "Battle of the Nations"(Leipzig, 15th-18th October, 1813), and his great Napoleon terminate in bankruptcy. He left no Son. A Brother, age 72, succeeded him as King for a few years; whom again a Bro
- 219 To this condition of beautifully phosph.o.r.escent rot-heap has Poland ripened, in the helpless reigns of those poor Augusts;--the fulness of time not now far off, one would say? It would complete the picture, could I go into the state of what is called &
- 220 This is the same Sulkowski; much concerned now in these matters; a rich Magnate, glad to see his friends about him as Governing Committee; but gets, and gives, a great deal of vexation in it, the element proving again too hot!-- I said there were four fam
- 221 [Preuss, iv. 24 n.]It was long believed, by persons capable of seeing into millstones, that, under cover of this Neisse Interview, there were important Political negotiations and consultings carried on;--that here, and in a Second Interview or Return-Visi
- 222 KING. "'I ask your pardon for having plagued you so often with that; I regret it for the sake of all mankind. But what a fine Apprentices.h.i.+p of War! I have committed errors enough to teach you young people, all of you, to do better. MON DIEU, how I
- 223 This was the result arrived at. Of which Friedrich "judged it but polite to inform the young Kaiser; who appeared to be grateful for this mark of attention, being much held down by Kaunitz in his present state of tutelage." [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxvi.
- 224 Here is a Historian King who uses no rouge-pot in his Narratives,--whose word, which is all we shall say of it at present, you find to be perfectly trustworthy, and a representation of the fact as it stood before himself! What follows needs no vouching fo
- 225 EGO. "'I have found my life again in Berlin; but at this moment, Sire, I find here a still greater happiness!' [ACH!]KING. "'You have stood a cruel operation: you must have suffered horribly?'EGO. "'Sire, it was well worth while.'KING. "'Did, y
- 226 Friedrich's notices of her are frequent in his Letters of the time, all affectionate, natural and reasonable. Here are the first two I meet with: TO THE ELECTRESS OF SAXONY (three weeks after Ulrique's arrival); "A thousand excuses, Madam, for not answ
- 227 It is long since we have seen Voltaire before:--a prosperous Lord at Ferney these dozen years ("the only man in France that lives like a GRAND SEIGNEUR," says Cardinal Bernis to him once [Their CORRESPONDENCE, really pretty of its kind, used to circulat
- 228 VOLTAIRE. "'It is a beautiful prospect.' He p.r.o.nounced these words tolerably well.SHERLOCK. "'How long is it since you were in England?'VOLTAIRE. "'Fifty years, at least.' [Not quite; in 1728 left; in 1726 had come.] [Supra, vii. 47.]D'HORNOI
- 229 GENERAL OR FIELDMARSHAL CONWAY, DIRECT FROM THE LONDON CIRCLES, ATTENDS ONE OF FRIEDRICH'S REVIEWS (August-September, 1774).Now that Friedrich's Military Department is got completely into trim again, which he reckons to have been about 1770, his annual
- 230 The Mumpelgard Princ.i.p.alities, and fortunate Princess, are summoned to Berlin. Czarowitsh Paul, under Henri's escort, and under gala and festivities from the Frontier onward, arrived in Berlin 21st July, 1776; was betrothed to his Wurtemberg Princ
- 231 _"Seiner Koniglicher Majestat von Preussen, Unser allergnadigster Herr, la.s.sen dem Ober-Proviantmeister Bein hiebey die Getraide-Preistabelle des Brombergschen Departments zufertigen; Woraus derselbe ersiehet wie niedrig solche an einigen Orthen si
- 232 VOLTAIRE SMOTHERED UNDER ROSES. King's Speech was on Sunday, April 5th, Evening of last Monday (March 30th), at the Theatre Francais in Paris, poor Voltaire had that world-famous apotheosis of his; and got "smothered under roses," as he ter
- 233 In short, Friedrich, who had gained nothing for himself, but such infinity of outlay in all kinds, never saw such a coil of human follies and cupidities before; and had to exhaust his utmost patience, submit to new losses of his own, and try all his dexte
- 234 "Besides us, there was present in the room the Cabinets-Rath Stellter [of the short-hand], who stood at a desk, and was getting ready for writing. The King looked at us, saying, 'Come nearer!' Whereupon we advanced another step, and were no
- 235 Chapter VIII.--THE FURSTENBUND: FRIEDRICH'S LAST YEARS.At Vienna, on November 29th, 1780, the n.o.ble Kaiserinn Maria Theresa, after a short illness, died. Her end was beautiful and exemplary, as her course had been. The disease, which seemed at firs
- 236 "One day I had turned a plate to see of what, porcelain it was. 'Where do you think it comes from?' asked the King.EGO. "'I thought it was Saxon; but, instead of two swords [the Saxon mark], I see only one, which is well worth bot
- 237 "From want of memory, and of opportunities to see oftener and longer the Greatest Man that ever existed [Oh, MON PRINCE!], I am obliged to stop.There is not a word in all this but was his own; and those who have seen him will recognize his manner. Al
- 238 "It is not my purpose to lose Battles by the base conduct (LACHETE) of my Generals: wherefore I hereby appoint, That you, next year, if I be alive, a.s.semble the Army between Breslau and Ohlau; and for four days before I arrive in your Camp, carefully m
- 239 In death, I think, he has neither fear nor hope. Atheism, truly, he never could abide: to him, as to all of us, it was flatly inconceivable that intellect, moral emotion, could have been put into HIM by an Ent.i.ty that had none of its own. But there, pre