One talks of the chances of war, but this is making death almost a certainty; for if the war continues another two or three years, how few will be left of those who began it! "Even now a great battle will probably be fought, in a few days.
Two great armies are within as many marches of Dresden.

The smallest of them outnumbers Frederick.

The other is fully twice his strength, and so intrenched, as I hear, that the position is well-nigh impregnable." "I expect the king will find means to force him out of it, without fighting," Fergus said with a smile.

"Daun is altogether over cautious, and Leuthen is not likely to have rendered him more confident." Fergus spent the greater part of his time at the count's, for Marshal Keith insisted upon his abstaining from all duty, until the march began.
"We are off tomorrow morning," he said, when he went up on the evening of the 30th of September.

"Where, I know not.