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

CHAPTER IV
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[His Letter, "9th October, 1741" (in Lord Mahon's _History of England,_ iii.

Appendix, p.

iii: edit.

London, 1839)].

Such is Robinson's gloomy view: finished, he, and the game lost,--unless perhaps Hyndford could still do something?
Of which what hope is there! Hyndford, who has a rough sagacity in him, and manifests often a strong sense of the practical and the practicable, strikes into--Readers, from the following Fragments of Correspondence, now first made public, will gather for themselves what new course, veiled in triple mystery, Hyndford had struck into.


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