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

CHAPTER II
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What a gallop, sweeping through the slumber of the world: To Osnabruck, Osnabruck! In the hollow of the night (some say, one in the morning), they reach Osnabruck.

And the poor old Brother,--Ernst August, once youngest of six brothers, of seven children, now the one survivor, has human pity in the heart of him full surely.

But George is dead; careless of it now.
[Coxe (i.

266) is "indebted to his friend Nathaniel Wraxall" for these details,--the since famous Sir Nathaniel, in whose _Memoirs_ (vague, but NOT mendacious, not unintelligent) they are now published more at large.
See his _Memoirs of the Courts of Berlin, Dresden,_ &c.

(London.


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