. Carlyle's complete works. g Cousin Trenck, of the Life-guard, who is now in Glatz,gives vivid eye-witness particulars of these things, time of themorning and so on; says expressly he was there, and what hedid there,^ — though in Glatz under lock and key, three goodmonths before. How could I help mistakes, said he after-wards, when people objected to this and that in his blusterousmendacity of a Book: I had nothing but my poor agitatedmemory to trust to! A mans memory, Avhen it gets thelength of remembering that he was in the Battle of Sohr whilebodily absent, ought it not to — in fact, to st
. Carlyle's complete works. g Cousin Trenck, of the Life-guard, who is now in Glatz,gives vivid eye-witness particulars of these things, time of themorning and so on; says expressly he was there, and what hedid there,^ — though in Glatz under lock and key, three goodmonths before. How could I help mistakes, said he after-wards, when people objected to this and that in his blusterousmendacity of a Book: I had nothing but my poor agitatedmemory to trust to! A mans memory, Avhen it gets thelength of remembering that he was in the Battle of Sohr whilebodily absent, ought it not to — in fact, to strike work; to stillits agitations altogether, and call halt ? Trenck, some monthsafter, got clambered out of Glatz, by servers, or I forget how;and leaped, or dropped, from some parapet into the EiverNeisse, — sinking to the loins in tough mud, so that he couldnot stir farther. Fouquet let me stand there half a day, 1 Frederic de Trenck, Memoires, traduits par lui-mcine (Strasburgand Paris, 1789), i. 74-78,
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