Austria, getting back its Lorraine and Alsace, will be content, will be strong on its feet.

What if it should even lose Italy?
France, Spain, Sardinia, the Italian Petty Principalities and Anarchies: suppose they tug and tussle, and collapse there as they can?
But let France try to look across the Rhine again; and to threaten Teutschland, England, and the Cause of Human Liberty temporal or spiritual!" This is authentically the purport of Herr Ranke's extraordinary Document; [Ranke, iii.

359.] guessable as due to CARTERETUS or DIABOLUS.
Here is an outlook; here is a career as Conquering Hero, if that were one's line! A very magnificent ground-plan; hung up to kindle the fancy of a young King,--who is far too prudent to go into it at all.

More definite quasi-official offers, it seems, were made him from the same quarter: Subsidies to begin with, such subsidies as nobody ever had before; say 1,000,000 pounds sterling by the Year.

To which Friedrich answered, "Subsidies, your Excellency ?" (Are We a Hackney-Coachman, then ?)--and, with much contempt, turned his back on that offer.