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

CHAPTER III
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A Book UNedited; little but lazy ignorance of a very hopeless type, thick contented darkness, traceable throughout in the marginal part.

No attempt at an Index, or at any of the natural helps to a reader now at such distance from it.

Nay, till you have at least marked, on the top of each page, what Month and Year it actually is, the Book cannot be read at all,--except by an idle creature, doing worse than nothing under the name of reading!" 4.

PITT'S SPEECHES, FORESHADOWING WHAT.

"It is a kind of epoch in your studies of modern English History when you get to understand of Pitt's Speeches, that they are not Parliamentary Eloquences, but things which with his whole soul he means, and is intent to DO.


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