Very fixed, fell and feminine is the Pompadour's humor in this matter.

Nor is the Czarina's less so; but more, if possible; unappeasable except by death.

Imperial Maria Theresa has masculine reasons withal; great hopes, too, of late.

Of the War's ending till flat impossibility stop it, there is no likelihood.
To Pitt this Campaign 1759, in spite of bad omens at the outset, proved altogether splendid: but greatly the reverse on Friedrich's side; to whom it was the most disastrous and unfortunate he had yet made, or did ever make.

Pitt at his zenith in public reputation; Friedrich never so low before, nothing seemingly but extinction near ahead, when this Year ended.