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

CHAPTER IX
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He is not made to taste the sweets of society: his passion for hunting, and the tippling life he leads this long time, throw him out when he comes among reasonable persons....

"I expect my Sister of Brunswick, with the Duke and their eldest Girl, the 4th of next month,"-- to Carnival here.

"It is seven years since the Queen (our Mamma) has seen her.

She holds a small Board of Wit at Brunswick; of which your Doctor [Doctor Superville, Dutch-French, whose perennial merit now is, That he did not burn Wilhelmina's MEMOIRS, but left them safe to posterity, for long centuries],--of which your Doctor is the director and oracle.

You would burst outright into laughing when she speaks of those matters.


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