History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, 第 6 巻Chapman and Hall, 1865 - 778 ページ |
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... prove to have a turning , and the Fortune of War recovers its old impartial form . After which , things visibly languish : and the hope of ruining such a Friedrich becomes problematic , the effort to do it slackens also ; the very will ...
... prove to have a turning , and the Fortune of War recovers its old impartial form . After which , things visibly languish : and the hope of ruining such a Friedrich becomes problematic , the effort to do it slackens also ; the very will ...
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... proved visionary , and with huge prac- tical fears , of what he knew to be the real likelihood . " Peace coming ? " It is strange how long Friedrich clings to that fond hope : " My Edelsheim is in the Bastille , or packed home in ...
... proved visionary , and with huge prac- tical fears , of what he knew to be the real likelihood . " Peace coming ? " It is strange how long Friedrich clings to that fond hope : " My Edelsheim is in the Bastille , or packed home in ...
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... prove needful for alluring Lacy ) , — and in the mean while , very inquisitive where Lacy might be . One of Lacy's out- posts , those Saxon light horse , was fallen in with ; was chased ' home , and Lacy's camp discovered , that night ...
... prove needful for alluring Lacy ) , — and in the mean while , very inquisitive where Lacy might be . One of Lacy's out- posts , those Saxon light horse , was fallen in with ; was chased ' home , and Lacy's camp discovered , that night ...
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... proved to be false . " Pshaw , nothing for us but to go ourselves ! " concludes Friedrich , -and , July 1st , sends off his Bakery and Heavy Baggage ; indicating to Mitchell , " Tomorrow morning at 3 " -Here is Mitchell's own account ...
... proved to be false . " Pshaw , nothing for us but to go ourselves ! " concludes Friedrich , -and , July 1st , sends off his Bakery and Heavy Baggage ; indicating to Mitchell , " Tomorrow morning at 3 " -Here is Mitchell's own account ...
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... string , therefore , has snapt in two ; but , on the instant , he has a second fitted on : -may that prove luckier ! CHAPTER II . FRIEDRICH BESIEGES DRESDEN . FROM and after 24 [ BOOK XX . FRIEDRICH NOT TO BE OVERWHELMED .
... string , therefore , has snapt in two ; but , on the instant , he has a second fitted on : -may that prove luckier ! CHAPTER II . FRIEDRICH BESIEGES DRESDEN . FROM and after 24 [ BOOK XX . FRIEDRICH NOT TO BE OVERWHELMED .
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102 ページ - Friedrich into great confinement indeed. Friedrich is aware of this Vienna Order; which is a kind of comfort in the circumstances. The intentions of the hungry Russians, too, are legible to Friedrich ; and he is much resolved that said Order shall be impossible to Daun. " Were it to be possible, we are landless. Where are our recruits, our magazines, our resources for a new Campaign ? We may as well die, as suffer that to be possible !" Such is Friedrich's fixed view. He says to D'Argens : "You,...
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687 ページ - But there, pretty much, his Theism seems to have stopped. Instinctively, too, he believed, no man more firmly, that Right alone has ultimately any strength in this world : ultimately, yes ;—but for him and his poor brief interests, what good was it ? Hope for himself in Divine Justice, in Divine Providence, I think he had not practically any...