Be not too severe on the poor man, as the Vienna public was; he had some faculty, though not enough.

"Governor of Luxemburg," before long: there, for most part, let him peacefully drill, and spend the remainder of his poor life.

Friedrich says, neither Neipperg nor himself, at this time, knew the least of War; and that it would be hard to settle which of them made the more blunders in their Silesian tussle.
Friedrich, in about three weeks hence, was fully ready for opening trenches upon Brieg; did open trenches, accordingly, by moonlight, in a grand nocturnal manner (as readers shall see anon); and, by vigorous cannonading,--Marechal de Belleisle having come, by this time, to enjoy the fine spectacle,--soon got possession of Brieg, and held it thenceforth.

Neisse now alone remained, with Neipperg vigilantly stretched upon the threshold of it.

But the Marechal de Belleisle, we say, had come; that was the weighty circumstance.