[History of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. XIV. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. XIV. (of XXI.) CHAPTER II 54/55
(Here is a pleasant friend to have on visit to you, in the next apartment, with such an eye and such a nose!)... "Monseigneur," finely insinuates Voltaire in conclusion, "is not there" a certain Frenchman, true to his Country, to his King, and to your Eminency, with perhaps peculiar facilities for being of use, in such delicate case? --"JE SUIS," much your Eminency's.
[_OEuvres,_ lxxii.
p. 568 (to Cideville), p.
579 (D'Argenson), p.
574 (Fleury).] Friedrich, on the day while Voltaire at Brussels sat so busy writing of him, was at Salzdahl, visiting his Brunswick kindred there, on the road home to his usual affairs.
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