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

CHAPTER VIII
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Voltaire, twenty years after, had the pleasure of seeing her at Berlin: "Wife of one Shommers, Clerk of the Hackney-Coach Office,"-- read, Schomer, FARMER of the Berlin Hackney-Coach Enterprise in general; decidedly a poor man.

Wife, by this time, was grown hard enough of feature: "tall, lean; looked like a Sibyl; not the least appearance how she could ever have deserved to be whipt for a Prince." [Voltaire, _OEuvres_ (calumnious _Vie Privee du Roi de Prusse_), ii.

51, 52.

Preuss, i.

64, 66.] The excellent Tutor of the Crown-Prince, good Duhan de Jandun, for what fault or complicity we know not, is hurled off to Memel; ordered to live there,--on what resources is equally unknown.


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