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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. II. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER IX
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265).]--Albert was by no means a prepossessing man, though a tough and hungry one.

It must be owned, he had a harsh ugly character; and face to match: big-nosed, loose-lipped, blind of an eye: not Kaiser-like at all to an Electoral Body.

_"Est homo monoculus, et vultu rustico; non potest esse Imperator_ (A one-eyed fellow, and looks like a clown; he cannot be Emperor)!" said Pope Boniface VIII., when consulted about him.

[Kohler, pp.

267-273; and _Muntzbelustigungen, xix.


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