Thomas Carlyle 
History of Friedrich II of Prussia – Volume 14 [EPUB ebook] 

pub One.info present you this new edition. Friedrich’s own Peace being made on such terms, his wish and hope was, that it might soon be followed by a general European one; that, the live-coal, which had kindled this War, being quenched, the War itself might go out. Silesia is his; farther interest in the Controversy, except that it would end itself in some fair manner, he has none. "Silesia being settled, " think many, thinks Friedrich for one, "what else of real and solid is there to settle?