A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . ltreasury. Character of Frederick the Great. — Young Frederick had nosympathy with his fathers austere ways. The strict system oftraining arrangedfor him, in whichhe was cut offfrom Latin andfrom other studiesfor which he hada taste, his timeall parceled out,and a successionof tasks rigor-ously ordained forhim, he found ayoke too heavy tobear. Once he at-tempted to escapeto the court of hisuncle, George England; butthe scheme wasdiscovered, andthe incensed father was strongly inclined to execute the decreeof a court-m
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . ltreasury. Character of Frederick the Great. — Young Frederick had nosympathy with his fathers austere ways. The strict system oftraining arrangedfor him, in whichhe was cut offfrom Latin andfrom other studiesfor which he hada taste, his timeall parceled out,and a successionof tasks rigor-ously ordained forhim, he found ayoke too heavy tobear. Once he at-tempted to escapeto the court of hisuncle, George England; butthe scheme wasdiscovered, andthe incensed father was strongly inclined to execute the decreeof a court-martial, which pronounced him worthy of , from the window of the place where he was con-fined, saw Katte, his favorite tutor, who had helped him inhis attempt at flight, led to the scafEold, where he was the later years of the old King, the relations of father andson were improved. The Prince grew up with a strong predi-lection for French literature, and for the French habits andfashions — free-thinking in religion included — which were. FUEDEEICK THE GuEAT 444 WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION now spreading over Europe. On his accession to the throne,Frederick broke up the Potsdam regiment of giants, and calledback to Halle the philosopher Wolf, whom his father had ban-ished. Frederick was visited by Voltaire, who at a later daytook up his abode for a time with him in Berlin. But event-ually they parted company with mutual disgust, although theynever wholly lost their intellectual sympathy with each a soldier, Frederick had not the military genius of thegreatest captains. He applied superior talents to the dis-charge of the duties of a king, and to the business of was cool, knew how to profit by his errors and to repairhis losses, and to press forward in the darkest hour. Napo-leon said of him that he was great, especially at criticalmoments. War of the Austrian Succession— Charles VI. was succeeded,in 1740, by his daughter Maria Th
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