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

CHAPTER IV
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He was very gracious; saluting to this side and to that, where he noticed people of condition in the windows.

"Along Schweidnitz Street, across the Great Ring, down Albrecht Street." He alighted, to lodge, at the Count-Schlegenberg House; which used to be the Austrian Cardinal von Sinzendorf Primate of Silesia's hired lodging,--Sinzendorf's furniture is put gently aside, on this new occasion.

King came on the balcony; and stood there for some minutes, that everybody might see him.

The "immense shoutings," Dryasdust assures me, have been exaggerated; and I am warned not to believe the KRIEGS-FAMA such and such a Number, except after comparing it with him .-- That day there was dinner of more than thirty covers, Chief Syndic Gutzmar and other such guests; but as to the viands, says my friend, these, owing to the haste, were nothing to speak of.

[_Helden-Geschichte,_ i.


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