Carlyle's complete works . as surely touching to hear from the mouth of a great Mon-arch, said Herr Lieutenant-Colonel von Backhof to me, and tears cameinto that old soldiers eyes. Afterwards his Majesty had said: — ^ Of the Battle of Fehrbellin I know everything, almost as if I myselfhad been there ! While I was Crown-Prince, and lay in Euppin, therewas an old townsman, the man was even then very old: he coulddescribe the whole Battle, and knew the scene of it extremely I got into a carriage, took my old genius with me, who showedme all over the ground, and described everything so d
Carlyle's complete works . as surely touching to hear from the mouth of a great Mon-arch, said Herr Lieutenant-Colonel von Backhof to me, and tears cameinto that old soldiers eyes. Afterwards his Majesty had said: — ^ Of the Battle of Fehrbellin I know everything, almost as if I myselfhad been there ! While I was Crown-Prince, and lay in Euppin, therewas an old townsman, the man was even then very old: he coulddescribe the whole Battle, and knew the scene of it extremely I got into a carriage, took my old genius with me, who showedme all over the ground, and described everything so distinctly, I wasmuch contented with him. As we were coming back, I thought: Come,let me have a little fun with the old blade; — so I asked him : Father,dont you know, then, why the two Sovereigns came to quaiTcl withone another? —*0 ja, your Eoyal Highnesses [from this point wehave Platt-Deutsch, Prussian dialect, for the old mans speech ; barelyintelligible, as Scotch is to an ingenious Englishman], dat ivill ick Sa. Eastifr^a/ lrixen,uiilT^ KINGDOM C
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