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

CHAPTER IV
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Not done quite easily; but, done: big destinies of Nations or of Persons are not founded GRATIS in this world.

He had a sore toilsome time of it, coercing, warring, managing among his fellow-creatures, while his day's work lasted,--fifty years or so, for it began early.

He died in his Castle of Ballenstadt, peaceably among the Hartz Mountains at last, in the year 1170, age about sixty-five.

It was in the time while Thomas a Becket was roving about the world, coming home excommunicative, and finally getting killed in Canterbury Cathedral;--while Abbot Samson, still a poor little brown Boy, came over from Norfolk, holding by his mother's hand, to St.Edmundsbury; having seen "SANTANAS s with outspread wings" fearfully busy in this world..


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