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

CHAPTER I
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This is the one step his Britannic Majesty has yet made, out of these his choking imbroglios; and truly this is one.

Hyndford, his best negotiator, is on the road for Friedrich's Camp; Robinson at Vienna, has been directed to say and insist, "Bargain with that man; he must be bargained with, if our Cause of Liberty is to be saved at all ?"-- And now, having opened the dust-bin so far, that the reader's fancy might be stirred without affliction to his lungs and eyes, let us shut it down again,--might we but hope forever! That is too fond a hope.

But the background or sustaining element made imaginable, the few events deserving memory may surely go on at a much swifter pace..


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