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

CHAPTER IX
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[Speech given in Rentsch, pp.

484-439.] What could Father do more?
Both Father and Son, I suppose, were weeping.
This was in 1535, this last scene; things looking now more ominous than ever.

Of Kurfurst Joachim I will remember nothing farther, except that once, twenty-three years before, he "held a Tourney in Neu-Ruppin," year 1612; Tourney on the most magnificent scale, and in New-Ruppin, [Pauli, ii.

466.] a place we shall know by and by.
As to the Lady, she lived eighteen years in that fine Schloss of Lichtenberg; saw her children as we said; and, silently or otherwise, rejoiced in the creed they were getting.

She saw Luther's self sometimes; "had him several times to dinner;" he would call at her Mansion, when his journeys lay that way.


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