Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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Page 121
... Frederic William was so ill regulated , that all his inclinations became passions , and all his passions partook of the character of moral and intellectual disease . His parsimony degenerated into sordid avarice . His taste for military ...
... Frederic William was so ill regulated , that all his inclinations became passions , and all his passions partook of the character of moral and intellectual disease . His parsimony degenerated into sordid avarice . His taste for military ...
Page 122
... Frederic , surnamed the Great , son of Frederic William , was born in January 1712. It may safely be pronounced that he had received from nature a strong and sharp understanding , and a rare firmness of temper and intensity of will . As ...
... Frederic , surnamed the Great , son of Frederic William , was born in January 1712. It may safely be pronounced that he had received from nature a strong and sharp understanding , and a rare firmness of temper and intensity of will . As ...
Page 123
... Frederic William was bad enough . He now thought malignity a part of his duty as a Christian man , and all the conscience that he had stimulated his hatred . The flute was broken : the French books were sent out of the palace : the ...
... Frederic William was bad enough . He now thought malignity a part of his duty as a Christian man , and all the conscience that he had stimulated his hatred . The flute was broken : the French books were sent out of the palace : the ...
Page 124
... Frederic learned that his life would be spared . He remained , however , long & prisoner ; but he was not on that account to be pitied . He found in his gaolers a tenderness which he had never found in his father ; his table was not ...
... Frederic learned that his life would be spared . He remained , however , long & prisoner ; but he was not on that account to be pitied . He found in his gaolers a tenderness which he had never found in his father ; his table was not ...
Page 125
... Frederic William , with all his rugged Saxon prejudices , thought it necessary that his children should know French , and quite unnecessary that they should be well versed in German . The Latin was positively interdicted . " My son ...
... Frederic William , with all his rugged Saxon prejudices , thought it necessary that his children should know French , and quite unnecessary that they should be well versed in German . The Latin was positively interdicted . " My son ...
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