. Carlyle's complete works. 461 XI. Camp op Chlum : Friedrich cannot achieve Peace . 468 Camp of Dieskau : Britannic Majesty makes Peace, for himself, with Friedrich ; but cannot for Austria or Saxony, p. 477-Schonbrunn, 2d August, 1745, Robinson has Audience of her Hungarian Majesty, Franz is elected Kaiser (13th September, 1745); Friedrich, the Season and Forage being done, makes for Silesia, 483. XII. Battle of Sohr 4^^^^ XIII. Saxony and Austria make a surprising last Attempt 502 Friedrich goes out to meet his Three-legged Monster ; cuts oneLeg of it in two (Fight of Henners
. Carlyle's complete works. 461 XI. Camp op Chlum : Friedrich cannot achieve Peace . 468 Camp of Dieskau : Britannic Majesty makes Peace, for himself, with Friedrich ; but cannot for Austria or Saxony, p. 477-Schonbrunn, 2d August, 1745, Robinson has Audience of her Hungarian Majesty, Franz is elected Kaiser (13th September, 1745); Friedrich, the Season and Forage being done, makes for Silesia, 483. XII. Battle of Sohr 4^^^^ XIII. Saxony and Austria make a surprising last Attempt 502 Friedrich goes out to meet his Three-legged Monster ; cuts oneLeg of it in two (Fight of Hennersdorf, 23d November,1745). p. 506. Prince Karl, cut in two> tumbles home again double-quick, 513. CONTENTS. ix MAPS. Battle of Chotusitz to face p. Ifi5 Dettingen 2o7 FoNTENoy 440 HoHENFRiEDBERG tofacej). 498 SOHR o . . lt>. ILLUSTRATIONS. Portraits : Voltaire. Potrelles, Bromleys, Prints. Etched by S. A. Schoff. Frontispiece. Portrait : Frederick II. Painted by Franke. Etched by Stephen J. Ferris. To face page HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA, CALLED FREDERICK THE GREAT. IN TWENTY-ONE BOOKS. FREDERICK THE GREAT. BOOK XIII. FIRST SILESIAN WAR, LEAVING THE GENERAL EURO-PEAN ONE ABLAZE ALL ROUND, GETS ENDED. May, 1741-July, 1742. CHAPTER I. BKITANNIC MAJESTY AS PALADIN OF THE PEAGMATIC. Part First of his Britannic Majestys Sorrows, the Britan-nic or Domestic Part, is now perhaps conceivable to as to the Second, the Germanic or Pra,gmatic Part, —articulate History, after much consideration, is content torenounce attempting these ; feels that these will remain for-ever inconceivable to mankind in the now altered times. Sosmall a gentleman; and he feels, dismally though with heroism,that he has got the axis of the world on his shoulder. PoorMajesty ! His eyes, proud as Joves, are nothing like so per-spicacious ; a pair of the poorest eyes: and he has to scan withthem, and unriddle under pain of death, such a waste of in-soluble intricacies, troubles and wor
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