. Romantic Germany. Tim GKhAT IN SANS SOUCI PARK, WITH TIIU THKKACLS ANDPALACE IN THE UACKGKUUND POTSDAM retreat, whenever the noises and scenic etiquettes were notinexorable. Sans-Souci; which we may translate No-Bother. A busy place this too, but of the quiet kind;and more a home to him than any of the Three fine Palaces(ultimately Four), which lay always waiting for him in theneighborhood. . Certainly it is a significant feature of Friedrich; and dis-closes the inborn proclivity he had to retirement, to studyand reflection, as the chosen element of human life. Whyhe fell upon so a


. Romantic Germany. Tim GKhAT IN SANS SOUCI PARK, WITH TIIU THKKACLS ANDPALACE IN THE UACKGKUUND POTSDAM retreat, whenever the noises and scenic etiquettes were notinexorable. Sans-Souci; which we may translate No-Bother. A busy place this too, but of the quiet kind;and more a home to him than any of the Three fine Palaces(ultimately Four), which lay always waiting for him in theneighborhood. . Certainly it is a significant feature of Friedrich; and dis-closes the inborn proclivity he had to retirement, to studyand reflection, as the chosen element of human life. Whyhe fell upon so ambitious a title for his Royal ^o-Bother was not practically a thing he, of all men,could consider possible in this world: at the utmost perhaps,by good care, Less-Bother! The name, it appears, cameby accident. He had prepared his Tomb, and variousTombs, in the skirts of this new Cottage: looking at these,as the building of them went on, he was heard to say, oneday (Spring 1746), DArgens strolling besid


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