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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
- 139 Voltaire had taken every precaution that this Visit should succeed, or at least be no loss to one of the parties. In a preliminary Letter from Paris,--prose and verse, one of the cleverest diplomatic pieces ever penned; Letter really worth looking at, cun
- 138 "And if the hussar took me into the Palace, it was now the Secretary that took me out again. And there, yoked with six horses, stood a royal Proviant-wagon; which having led me to, the Secretary said: 'You people, the King has given order you are to tak
- 137 "Next day, the Austrian is for challenging Chasot. 'As you like, that way,' answers Chasot; 'but learn first, that on your affront I rode up to the King; and asked, publicly, Did not your Majesty grant me permission? Unquestionably, Monsieur Chasot;--
- 136 Let us not speak of it!"Of Saxe's Generals.h.i.+p, which is now a thing fallen pretty much into oblivion, I have no authority to speak. He had much wild natural ingenuity in him; cunning rapid whirls of contrivance; and gained Three Battles and very man
- 135 [Adelung, vi. 105, 125-134.]"Whereupon the Dutch Population turned round on its Governors, with a growl of indignation, spreading ever wider, waxing ever higher: 'Scandalous laggards, is this your mode of governing a free Republic?Freedom to let the Sta
- 134 History of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. XVI.by Thomas Carlyle.BOOK XVI.--THE TEN YEARS OF PEACE.--1746-1756.Chapter I.--SANS-SOUCI.Friedrich has now climbed the heights, and sees himself on the upper table-land of Victory and Success; his desperate life-
- 133 MAP/PLAN GOES HERE--book 15 continuation --page 10-- advanced upon:e,--which he did all day, in a purely meditative posture. Rutowski numbers 35,000, now on this ground, with immensity of cannon; 32,000 we, with only the usual field-artillery, and such a
- 132 FRIEDRICH GOES OUT TO MEET HIS THREE-LEGGED MONSTER; CUTS ONE LEG OF IT IN TWO (Fight of Hennersdorf, 23d November, 1745).Friedrich, having heard the secret, gazes into it with horror and astonishment: "What a time I have! This is not living; this is bei
- 131 Thus Friedrich lay, when Valori escaped being stolen; when Tauenzien was a.s.sailed by the 10,000 Pandours with siege artillery, and stood inexpugnable in the breach till Friedrich relieved him. Those Pandours "had cut away his water, for the last two da
- 130 "Nominally it was the Grand-Duke that flung Conti over the Rhine; and delivered Teutschland from its plagues. After which fine feat, salvatory to the Cause of Liberty, and destructive to French influence, what is to prevent his election to the Kaisers.h.
- 129 It was about four in the afternoon, when Valori, with a companion, waiting a good while in the King's Tent at Jauernik, at last saw his Majesty return from the Fuchsberg observatory. Valori and friend have great news: "Tournay fallen; siege done, your M
- 128 "These columns advance, however; through bushy hollows, water-courses, through what defiles or hollowest grounds there are; endure the cannon-shot, while they must; trailing their own heavy guns by hand, and occasionally blasting out of them where the gr
- 127 APRIL 17th (still from Neisse).... "I toil day and night to improve our situation. The soldiers will do their duty. There is none among us who will not rather have his backbone broken than give up one foot-breadth of ground. They must either grant us a g
- 126 thrice-willing to accept, if it will fall into my mouth; which, on those terms, it has so little chance of doing!--Saxony and its mysterious affairs and intentions having been, to Friedrich, a riddle and trouble and astonishment, during all this Campaign,
- 125 They are dismantling Freyburg, to render it harmless henceforth. But, withal, in answer to the poor Kaiser's shrieks, they have sent Segur [our old Linz friend], with 12,000, to a.s.sist Seckendorf; 'the bravest troops in the world,'"--who did bravely
- 124 595-598; _Helden-Geschichte,_ ii. 1175-1181.] didactic, admonitory to the military mind, nay to the civic reader that has sympathy with heroisms, with work done manfully, and terror and danger and difficulty well trampled under foot. Leonidas Wedell has a
- 123 French sitting well on Prince Karl's skirts? They are not molesting Prince Karl in the smallest; never tried such a thing;--are turned away to the Brisgan, to the Upper Rhine Country; gone to besiege Freyburg there, and seize Towns; about the Lake of Con
- 122 History of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. XV.by Thomas Carlyle.BOOK XV.--SECOND SILESIAN WAR, IMPORTANT EPISODE IN THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE.--15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745.Chapter I.--PRELIMINARY: HOW THE MOMENT ARRIVED.Battle being once seen to be inevita
- 121 "In all Germany, not excepting even Mecklenburg, there had been no more anarchic spot than Ost-Friesland for the last sixty or seventy years. A Country with parliamentary-life in extraordinary vivacity (rising indeed to the suicidal or internecine pitch,
- 120 In fact, security on the Russian and Swedish side is always an object with Friedrich when undertaking war. "That the French bring about, help me to bring about, a Triple Alliance of Prussia, Russia, Sweden:" this was a thing Friedrich had bargained to s
- 119 Chapter VII.--FRIEDRICH MAKES TREATY WITH FRANCE; AND SILENTLY GETS READY.Though Friedrich went upon the bantering tone with Voltaire, his private thoughts in regard to the surrounding scene of things were extremely serious; and already it had begun to be
- 118 MARGINALIA BY FRIEDRICH. "9. I love you with all my heart; I esteem you: I will do all to have you, except follies, and things which would make me forever ridiculous over Europe, and at bottom would be contrary to my interests and my glory. The only comm
- 117 "Compensation for the past, Security for the future:" Compensation? what does her Hungarian Majesty mean? asked all the world; asked Friedrich, the now Proprietor of Silesia, with peculiar curiosity! It is the first time her Hungarian Majesty steps arti
- 116 "Thus march these English, that dewy morning, Thursday, June 27th, 1743, with cannon playing on their left flank; and such a fate ahead of them, had they known it;--very short of breakfast, too, for most part. But they have one fine quality, and Britanni
- 115 "On which same day, 26th of June, as it chances, Broglio too has made his packages; left a garrison in Ingolstadt, garrison in Eger; and is ferrying across at Donauworth,--will see the Marlborough Sch.e.l.lenberg as he pa.s.ses,--in full speed for the Rh
- 114 "Eger is 100 miles off, by the shortest Highway: there are two bad Highways, one by Pilsen southerly, one by Karlsbad northerly,--with their bridges all broken, infested by Hussars:--we strike into a middle combination of country roads, intricate parish
- 113 "SEPTEMBER 19th-OCTOBER 10th,,'--Scene is, the Eger-VohenStrauss Country, in and about that Bohemian Forest of seventy miles.--"For three weeks, Maillebois and the Comte de Saxe, trying their utmost, cannot, or cannot to purpose, get through that Bohem
- 112 There were fine fightings, in the interior too, under Generals of mark; General Browne doing feats, excellent old General Feldmarschall Traun, of whom we shall hear; Maillebois, Belleisle the Younger, of whom we have heard. There was Battle of Campo-Santo
- 111 History of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. XIV.by Thomas Carlyle.BOOK XIV.--THE SURROUNDING EUROPEAN WAR DOES NOT END.--August, 1742-July, 1744.Chapter I.--FRIEDRICH RESUMES HIS PEACEABLE PURSUITS.Friedrich's own Peace being made on such terms, his wish an
- 110 Friedrich did not much pursue the Austrians after this Victory; having cleared the Czaslau region of them, he continued there (at Kuttenberg mainly); and directed all his industry to getting Peace made. His experiences of Broglio, and of what help was lik
- 109 The Saxon Gentlemen never came;--privately the Saxons were quite off from the Silesian bargain, and from Friedrich altogether;--so that this border survey of Nussler's came to nothing, on the present occasion. But it served him and Friedrich well, on a n
- 108 THE SAXONS THINK IGLAU ENOUGH; THE FRENCH GO HOME.Nay, Iglau taken, the affair grows worse than ever. Our Saxons now declare that they understand their orders to be completed; that their Court did not mean them to march farther, but only to hold by Iglau,
- 107 Coronation was to have been (or we Country-folk thought it was), January 31st: Let us be there INCOGNITO, the night before; see it, and return the day after. That was our plan. Bad roads, waters all out; we had to go night and day;--reached the gates of F
- 106 BROGLIO HAS A BIVOUAC OF PISEK; KHEVENHULLER LOOKS IN UPON THE DONAU CONQUESTS.Grand-Duke Franz edged himself at last a little out of that Tabor-Budweis region, and began looking Prag-ward again;--hung about, for some time, with his Hungarian light-troops
- 105 The late general Homaging at Breslau, and solemn Taking Possession of the Country by King Friedrich, under such peaceable omens, had straightway, as we gather, brought about, over Silesia at large, or at least where pressingly needful, various little alte
- 104 EXCELLENCY HYNDFORD BRINGS ABOUT A MEETING AT KLEIN-SCHNELLENDORF (9th October, 1741).It was the second day after that Homaging at Linz, when Hyndford (Sept.22d) with mysterious negotiations, now nearly ripe, for disengaging Neipperg, waylaid his Prussian
- 103 On reaching the German sh.o.r.e out of Elsa.s.s, "every Officer put, the Bavarian Colors, c.o.c.kade of blue-and-white, on his hat;" [Adelung, ii. 431.] a mere "Bavarian Army," don't you see? And the 40,000 wend steadily forward through Schwaben east
- 102 The Two Britannic Gentlemen, both on that distressing Monday and the day following, had the honor to dine with the King: who seemed in exuberant spirits; cutting and bantering to right and left; upon the Court of Vienna, among other topics, in a way which
- 101 Now as always he follows loyally his Wife's lead, never she his: Wife being, intrinsically as well as extrinsically, the better man, what other can he do?--Of compliance with Friedrich in this Court, there is practically no hope till after a great deal o
- 100 History of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. XIII.by Thomas Carlyle.BOOK XIII. -- FIRST SILESIAN WAR, LEAVING THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE ABLAZE ALL ROUND, GETS ENDED. -- May, 1741-July, 1742.Chapter I. -- BRITANNIC MAJESTY AS PALADIN OF THE PRAGMATIC.Part First
- 99 "Wednesday Evening, 15th March, 1741, We anchor in the Playa Grande, the waste surfy Shallow which washes Carthagena seaward: 124 sail of us, big and little. We find Don Blas in a very prepared posture. Don Blas has been doing his best, this twelvemonth
- 98 "MR. VINER (on his legs):... 'If I mistake not the true intention of the Address proposed,' in answer to his Majesty's most gracious Speech from the Throne, 'we are invited to declare that we will oppose the King of Prussia in his attempts upon Siles
- 97 In this way do the Pragmatic people eat their own Covenant, one after the other, and are not ashamed;--till all have eaten, or as good as eaten; and, almost within year and day, Pragmatic Sanction is a vanished quant.i.ty; and poor Kaiser Karl's life-lab
- 96 But if not as cause, then as signal, or as signal and cause together (which it properly was), the Battle of Mollwitz gave the finis.h.i.+ng stroke, and set all in motion. This was "the little stone broken loose from the mountain;" this, rather than the
- 95 not said otherwise where. He had come as Volunteer, few weeks ago, out of Holland, where he was a rising General: he has met his fate here,--and Margraf Karl, his Brother, who also gets wounded, will be a mournful man to-night.The Prussian Horse, this rig
- 94 This is the end of that March into the Mountains, with Neisse Siege hanging triumphant ahead. These are the King's quarters, this wintry Spring night, Sat.u.r.day, 8th April, 1741; and it is to be guessed there is more of care than of sleep provided for
- 93 so called, which human nature shrinks from; of which the extant generation already knows nothing, and is impatient of hearing anything!Truly, Oblivion is very due to such an Epoch: and from me far be it to awaken, beyond need, its sordid Bedlams, happily
- 92 "SEPTEMBER 3d, 1741. At Wilmanstrand,--key of Wyborg, their frontier stronghold in Finland, which was under Siege,--the Swedes (about 5,000 of them, for they had nothing to live upon, and lay scattered about in fractions) made fight, or skirmish, against
- 91 escorting; next "the Dauphin" (Boy of eleven, Louis XVI.'s. Father), and "Mesdames of France, with"--but even Geusau stops short. Protestants cannot enter that Chapel, without peril of idolatry; wherefore Geusau and Pupil kept strolling in the genera
- 90 "Adieu, M. le Conseiller [Poor's-RATH, so styled]. Go and amuse yourself with Horace, study Pausanias, and be gay over Anacreon. As to me, who for amus.e.m.e.nt have nothing but merlons, fascines and gabions, [Merlons are mounds of earth placed behind t
- 89 "SUNDAY, 1st JANUARY, 1741. The King having established himself in Herrn Scultet's Garden-House, not far from the Schweidnitz Gate, there began a delicate and great operation. The Prussians, in a soft cautious manner, in the gray of the morning, push ou
- 88 Gotter has fulfilled his instructions in regard to this important little Doc.u.ment; and now the effect of it is--? Gotter can report no good effect whatever. "Be cautious," Friedrich instructs him farther; "modify that Fifth Proposal; I will take less
- 87 History of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. XII.by Thomas Carlyle.BOOK XII. -- FIRST SILESIAN WAR, AWAKENING A GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE, BEGINS. -- December, 1740-May, 1741.Chapter I. -- OF SCHLESIEN, OR SILESIA.Schlesien, what we call Silesia, lies in elliptic
- 86 England is not less interested, and the diligent Sir Guy is doing his best; but can make out nothing satisfactory;--much the reverse indeed; and falls into angry black antic.i.p.ations. "n.o.body here, great or small,"says his Excellency, "dares make a
- 85 And so, on the 1st of November, fifth morning since they came, Schwerin and Podewils, a world of new business silently ahead of them, return to Berlin, intent to begin the same. All the Kings will have to take their resolution on this matter; wisely, or e
- 84 Brother, we will hope, silently continues to be Pole, so that the needle always comes back again; otherwise all would go to wreck. Here, in abridged and partly rectified form, are the phenomena witnessed:-- "We arrived at Berlin the end of October [Monda
- 83 Borck's management was throughout good: punctual, quietly exact, polite, mildly inflexible. Fain would the Maaseyk Town-Baths have shut their gates on him; desperately conjuring him, "Respite for a few hours, till we send to Liege for instructions!" Bu
- 82 "Most respectable Inspector of the poor, the invalids, orphans, crazy people and Bedlams,--I have read with mature meditation the very profound Jordanic Letter which was waiting here;"--and do accept your learned proposal."I have seen that Voltaire who
- 81 The Newspapers, though their eyes were not yet of the Argus quality now familiar to us, have been intent on Friedrich during this Baireuth-Cleve Journey, especially since that sudden eclipse of him at Strasburg lately; forming now one scheme of route for
- 80 this General wished to investigate your Comte Dufour,--foreign Count, who the instant he arrives sets about inviting people to supper that are perfect strangers. He took the poor Count for a sharper; and prudently advised M. de la Crochardiere not to be d
- 79 quizzed and frolicked; The big Count [Heir-apparent of Dessau] silently swung his head, Wis.h.i.+ng this fine Journey to France, In the bottom of his heart, most christianly at the Devil.Les uns nous prenaient pour des rois, D'autres pour des filous cour
- 78 Harrington is here too;--and Britannic Majesty and he are busy governing the English Nation on these terms.--We return now to the Prussian Majesty.About six weeks after that of d.i.c.kens,--Cleve Journey and much else now ended,--Praetorius the Danish Env
- 77 Readers see there is radiance enough, perhaps slightly in excess, but of intrinsically good quality, in the Aurora of this new Reign. A brilliant valiant young King; much splendor of what we could call a golden or soft nature (visible in those "New-Era"
- 76 History of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. XI.by Thomas Carlyle.BOOK XI. -- FRIEDRICH TAKES THE REINS IN HAND. -- June-December, 1740.Chapter I. -- PHENOMENA OF FRIEDRICH'S ACCESSION.In Berlin, from Tuesday, 31st May, 1740, day of the late King's death, t
- 75 "Herr Jesu, to thee I live; Herr Jesu, to thee I die; in life and in death thou art my gain (DU BIST MEIN GEWINN)." These were the last words Friedrich Wilhelm spoke in this world. He again fell into a faint. Eller gave a signal to the Crown-Prince to t
- 74 The Russians protested, with astonishment, against such Turk Peace on the Kaiser's part. But there was no help for it. One ally is gone, the Kaiser has let go this Western skirt of the Turk; and "Thamas Kouli Khan" (called also Nadir Shah, famed Orient
- 73 "Since that time," say twenty years ago, "there is no expense that the King has been afraid of, in order to succeed in his salutary views.He made, in the first place, regulations full of wisdom; he rebuilt wherever the Pestilence had desolated: thousan
- 72 Harmless "fire," but too "fatuous;" mere flame-circles cut in the air, for infants, we know how!-- With Lippe-Buckeburg there ensued some Correspondence, high enough on his Serenity's side; but it soon languished on the Prince's side; and in private
- 71 So that Oczakow was taken, sure enough; terms, life only: and every remaining Turk packs off from it, some "twenty thousand inhabitants young and old" for one sad item.--A very blazing semi-absurd event, to be read of in Prussian military circles,--wher
- 70 "REINSBERG, 26th October, 1736.... "Yesterday I went across to Mirow. To give my Most All-gracious Father an idea of the place, I cannot liken it to anything higher than Gross-Kreutz [term of comparison lost upon us; say GARRAT, at a venture, or the CLA
- 69 In Friedrich's History it was, no doubt, an important fact, that there lived a Voltaire along with him, twenty years his senior. With another Theory of the Universe than the Voltaire one, how much OTHER had Friedrich too been! But the Theory called by Vo
- 68 History of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. X.by Thomas Carlyle.BOOK X. -- AT REINSBERG. - 1736-1740.Chapter I. -- MANSION OF REINSBERG.On the Crown-Prince's Marriage, three years ago, when the AMT or Government-District RUPPIN, with its incomings, was a.s.
- 67 And these were the damages the poor Kaiser had to pay for meddling in Polish Elections;--for galloping thither in chase of his Shadows. No such account of broken windows was ever presented to a man before. This may be considered as the consummation of the
- 66 Chapter XI. -- IN PAPA'S SICK-ROOM; PRUSSIAN INSPECTIONS: END OF WAR.It appears, Friedrich met a cordial reception in the sickroom at Potsdam; and, in spite of his levities to Wilhelmina, was struck to the heart by what he saw there. For months to come,
- 65 Crown-Prince Friedrich and a select party escorted his Majesty to Mainz, where was a Dinner of unusual sublimity by the Kurfurst there; [15th August (Fa.s.smann, p. 511.)]--Dinner done, his Majesty stept on board "the Electoral Yacht;" and in this fine
- 64 "... The Queen commands me to give you a thousand regards from her. She appeared much affected at your illness; but for the rest, I could not warrant you how sincere it was; for she is totally changed, and I have quite lost reckoning of her (N'Y CONNAIS
- 63 "JUNE 29th, 1734. Kaiser, rallying desperately for recovery of the Milanese, has sent an Army thither, Graf von Mercy leader of it: Battle of Parma between the French and it (29th June);--totally lost by the Kaiser's people, after furious fighting; Graf
- 62 "Poor man, he has been living in Zweibruck, in Weissenburg and such places, in that Debatable French-German region,--which the French are more and more getting stolen to themselves, in late centuries:--generally on the outskirts of France he lives; havin
- 61 "These are August's plans: West-Preussen for the nearest Neighbor; Zips for Austria; Ukraine, Lithuania, and appendages for the Russian Czarina: handsome Sections to be sliced off, and flung to good neighbors; as it were, all the outlying limbs and wing
- 60 But the dexterous young Wife, gladdest; busiest and weakliest of hopeful creatures, contrived to manage everything, like a Female Fieldmarshal, as she was. Papa was delighted; bullied the foolish Ans.p.a.ch people,--or would have done so, had not I interv
- 59 "MEIN GOTT, what a piece of news Buddenbrock has brought me! I am to get nothing out of Brandenburg, my dear Hacke? Thirty men I had to s.h.i.+ft out of my company in consequence [of Buddenbrock's order]; and where am I now to get other thirty? I would
- 58 Preussen is to be the place for these people; Tilsit and Memel region, same where the big Fight of Tannenberg and ruin of the Teutsch Ritters took place: in that fine fertile Country there are homes got ready for this Emigration out of Salzburg.Long ago,
- 57 That was on the Thursday; Betrothal is on the Monday following. Doc.u.ment SECOND is from poor old Fa.s.smann, and quite of external nature; which we much abridge:-- "Monday evening, all creatures are in gala, and the Royal Apartments upstairs are brilli
- 56 History of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. IX.by Thomas Carlyle.BOOK IX. -- LAST STAGE OF FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICEs.h.i.+P: LIFE IN RUPPIN. -- 1732-1736.Chapter I. -- PRINCESS ELIZABETH CHRISTINA OF BRUNSWICK-BEVERN.We described the Crown-Prince as intent to
- 55 Old King Victor Amadeus of Sardinia had solemnly abdicated in favor of his Son; went, for a twelvemonth or more, into private felicity with an elderly Lady-love whom he had long esteemed the first of women;--tired of such felicity, after a twelvemonth; de
- 54 "WIEN [properly Berlin-Landsberg Highway, other side of Custrin], 4th October, 1731."I regret much to have missed the pleasure of seeing your Excellency again before I left Berlin. I set off between seven and eight in the morning yesterday, and got to C
- 53 "By that dreadful Treaty of Seville, Cardinal Fleury and the Spaniards should have joined with England, and coerced the Kaiser VI ET ARMIS to admit Spanish Garrisons [instead of neutral] into Parma and Piacenza, and so secure Baby Carlos his heritage the
- 52 History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. VIII.by Thomas Carlyle.BOOK VIII. -- CROWN-PRINCE REPRIEVED: LIFE AT CUSTRIN -- November, 1730-February, 1732.Chapter I. -- CHAPLAIN MULLER WAITS ON THE CROWN-PRINCE.Friedrich's feelings at this juncture are not m
- 51 Meanwhile the Court-Martial, selected with intense study, installs itself at Copenick; and on the 25th of October commences work. This Deserter Crown-Prince and his accomplices, especially Katte his chief accomplice, what is to be done with them? Copenick
- 50 SCENE AT BERLIN ON MAJESTY'S ARRIVAL.On Sunday evening, 27th August, 1730, his Majesty, who had rested overnight at Potsdam from his rapid journey, drove into Berlin between four and five in the afternoon. Deserter Fritz is following, under escort of his
- 49 not being yet came, the Royal Party lies asleep in two clean airy Barns, facing one another, in the Village of Steinfurth; Barns facing one another, with the Heidelberg Highway and Village Green asleep in front between them; [Compare Wilhelmina, i. 259 (h
- 48 Deeply pondering these things, what shall the poor Prince do? From Canstatt, close by Stuttgard, a Town on our homeward route,--from Canstatt, where Katte was to "appear in disguise," had the furlough been got, one might have slipt away across the Hills
- 47 "The King of Prussia sets out for Ans.p.a.ch on Sat.u.r.day next,"--11th July is Tuesday, Sat.u.r.day next will be 15th July, which proves correct.[Fa.s.smann, p. 410.] "I am, with the utmost respect, My Lord, Your Lords.h.i.+p's most obedient and mos
- 46 We could insist much on the notable people that were there; for the Lists of them are given. Many high Lords.h.i.+ps; some of whom will meet us again. Weissenfels, Wilhelmina's unfavored lover, how busy is he, commanding gallantly (in the terrific Sham-B
- 45 "1. For Hanover and your great liberality on that score, much obliged; but upon reconsideration think it will not do. 2. Marriage FIRST, Prince of Wales to Wilhelmina,--Consent with pleasure. 3. Marriage SECOND, Crown-Prince Friedrich with your Amelia,--
- 44 TO MY LORD TOWNSHEND AT LONDON: Excellency Hotham LOQUITUR (in a greatly condensed form).BERLIN, 12th APRIL, 1730. "... Of one or two noteworthy points I have to apprise your Lords.h.i.+p. So soon as his Majesty was sober, he found that he had gone too f
- 43 History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia.Vol. VII.by Thomas Carlyle.BOOK VII. -- FEARFUL s.h.i.+PWRECK OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT. -- Feb.-Nov., 1730.Chapter I. -- ENGLAND SENDS THE EXCELLENCY HOTHAM TO BERLIN.Things, therefore, are got to a dead-lock at B
- 42 "SIR,--I believe you may remember that we have for a long time suspected that most of Reichenbach's Despatches were dictated by some people here.About two days ago a Paper fell into my hands," realized quietly for a consideration, "containing an Accou
- 41 Fritz's love of music, especially of fluting, is already known to us.Now a certain Quantz was one of his princ.i.p.al instructors in that art, and indeed gave him the last finish of perfection in it. Quantz, famed Saxon music-master and composer, Leader
- 40 "The Privy Secretary drew up what I said in writing. Immediately afterwards he reported it to the Ministry, and brought me this answer: 'That the Ministers of this Court would be as good as their word of yesterday, and answer the above-mentioned Letter