[History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. VII. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link bookHistory Of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. VII. (of XXI.) CHAPTER III 2/26
171-210.
There are ten thick and thin half-volumes, and perhaps more.
One of the most hideous imbroglios ever published under the name of Book,--without vestige of Index, and on paper that has no margin and cannot stand ink,--yet with many curious articles stuffed blindly into the awful belly of it, like jewels into a rag-sack, or into TEN rag-sacks all in one; with far more authenticity than you could expect in such case.
Let us call it, for brevity, _Helden-Geschichte,_ in future references.] to omit the Hotham Despatches, we obtained the following shovelful of authentic particulars, perhaps not quite insupportable to existing mankind. The exact size of the Camp of Radewitz I nowhere find measured; but to judge on the map, [At p.
214.] it must have covered, with its appendages, some ten or twelve square miles of ground.
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