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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XII. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER XI
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Hartmann, named as Copyist by the Vienna people, made emphatic public answer: "Never did I copy it, or see it!" And there rose great argument, which is not yet quite ended, as to the question, "Original falsified, or Copy falsified ?"--and the modern vote, I believe, rather clearly is, That the Austrian Officials had done it--in a case of necessity.

[Adelung, ii.

150-154 (14th-20th November, 1740), gives the public facts, without commentary.

Hormayr (_Anemonen aus dem Tagebuch eines alten Pilgersmannes,_ Jena, 1845, i.
162-169,--our old Hormayr of the AUSTRIAN PLUTARCH, but now Anonymous, and in Opposition humor) considers the case nearly proved against Austria, and that Bartenstein and one Bessel, a pillar of the Church, were concerned in it.] Possible?
"But you will lose your soul!" said the Parson once to a poor old Gentlewoman, English by Nation, who refused, in dying, to contradict some domestic fiction, to give up some domestic secret: "But you will lose your soul, Madam!"-- "Tush, what signifies my poor silly soul compared with the honor of the family ?"-- 2.

KING FRIEDRICH;--King Friedrich may be taken as the Anti-Pragmatic next in order of time.


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