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

CHAPTER I
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7 millions.
English Subsidy (4 of good gold; becoppered into double),...........

8 " From Ephraim and his Farm of the Mint (MUNZ-PATENT), ..........

7 " In sum Twenty-six Millions; leaving you one Million of margin,--and always a plenty of cash in hand for incidental sundries.

[Preuss, ii.
388.] "Friedrich's own view of these sad matters, as he closes his _History of the Seven-Years War_ [at "Berlin, 17th December, 1763"], is in these words: 'May Heaven grant,--if Heaven deign to look down on the paltry concerns of men,--that the unalterable and flourishing destiny of this Country preserve the Sovereigns who shall govern it from the scourges and calamities which Prussia has suffered in these times of trouble and subversion; that they may never again be forced to recur to the violent and fatal remedies which we (L'ON) have been obliged to employ in maintenance of the State against the ambitious hatred of the Sovereigns of Europe, who wished to annihilate the House of Brandenburg, and exterminate from the world whatever bore the Prussian name!'" [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ v.

234.] OF THE SMALL-WAR IN SPRING, 1759.


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