History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great . ious popu-lations about. At midnight on the Hallow-Eve, dark smithswould repair thither, to cut a twig of the Zisca Oak: twig ofit put, at the right moment, under your stithy, insures goodluck, lends pith to arm and heart, which is already good that a Bishop of those parts, being of some culture, had tocut it down, above a hundred years ago, — and build someChapel in its stead; no Oak there now, but an orthodox In-scription, not dated that I could Friedrich did not much pursue the Austrians after this Vic-tory ; hav
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great . ious popu-lations about. At midnight on the Hallow-Eve, dark smithswould repair thither, to cut a twig of the Zisca Oak: twig ofit put, at the right moment, under your stithy, insures goodluck, lends pith to arm and heart, which is already good that a Bishop of those parts, being of some culture, had tocut it down, above a hundred years ago, — and build someChapel in its stead; no Oak there now, but an orthodox In-scription, not dated that I could Friedrich did not much pursue the Austrians after this Vic-tory ; having cleared the Czaslau region of them, he continuedthere (at Kuttenberg mainly) ; and directed all his industryto getting Peace made. His experiences of Broglio, and ofwhat help was likely to be had from Broglio, — whom hisCourt, as Friedrich chanced to know, had ordered to keepwell clear of the King of Prussia, — had not been in this Battle, Broglios charity would have been a1 Hormayr, (Esterreichischer Plutarch, iii. (3tes),
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