Her natural vivacity and haste has not left her time to get to the bottom of anything; she skips continually from one subject to the other, and gives twenty decisions in a minute." [--OEuvres de Frederic,--xxvii.

i.
202:--On Superville, see Preuss's Note, ib.

56.] About a month before Rothenburg's death, which was so tragical to Friedrich, there had fallen out, with a hideous dash of farce in it, the death of La Mettrie.

Here are Two Accounts, by different hands,--which represent to us an immensity of babble in the then Voltaire circle.
LA METTRIE DIES .-- Two Accounts: 1.

King Friedrich's: to Wilhelmina.
"21st November, 1751....