Thomas Carlyle 
History of Friedrich II of Prussia – Volume 16 [EPUB ebook] 

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pub One.info present you this new edition. Friedrich has now climbed the heights, and sees himself on the upper table-land of Victory and Success; his desperate life-and-death struggles triumphantly ended. What may be ahead, nobody knows; but here is fair outlook that his enemies and Austria itself have had enough of him. No wringing of his Silesia from this "bad Man. " Not to be overset, this one, by never such exertions; oversets US, on the contrary, plunges us heels-over-head into the ditch, so often as we like to apply to him; nothing but heavy beatings, disastrous breaking of crowns, to be had on trying there! "Five Victories! " as Voltaire keeps counting on his fingers, with upturned eyes, – Mollwitz, Chotusitz, Striegau, Sohr, Kesselsdorf (the last done by Anhalt; but omitting Hennersdorf, and that sudden slitting of the big Saxon-Austrian Projects into a cloud of feathers, as fine a feat as any), – "Five Victories! " counts Voltaire; calling on everybody (or everybody but Friedrich himself, who is easily sated with that kind of thing) to admire

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 399 ● ISBN 9782819937746 ● Maison d’édition Pub One Info ● Publié 2010 ● Téléchargeable 6 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2438628 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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