[History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. III. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link bookHistory Of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. III. (of XXI.) CHAPTER V 26/28
To which we may perhaps allude again.
The Line of Margraf George the Pious ends in this George Friedrich, who had no children; the Line of Margraf George, and the Elder Culmbach Line altogether (1603), Albert Alcibiades, Casimir's one son, having likewise died without posterity. "Of the younger Brothers," says my Authority, "some four were in the Church; two of whom rose to be Prelates;--here are the four:-- "1.
One, Wilhelm by name, was Bishop of Riga, in the remote Prussian outskirts, and became Protestant;--among the first great Prelates who took that heretical course; being favored by circumstances to cast out the 'V.
D._( Verbum Diaboli),'_ as Philip read it.
He is a wise-looking man, with magnificent beard, with something of contemptuous patience in the meditative eyes of him.
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