1184-1193; Old Newspapers, in _Gentleman's Magazine,_ xxix.

603.] Making his first exit, not yet quite his final, from the War-Theatre, amid such tempests of haha-ing and te-hee-ing.

With what thoughts in his own lofty opaque mind;--like a crowned mule, of such pace and carriage, who had unexpectedly stepped upon galvanic wires!-- As to those poor Wurtembergers, and their notion of the "Protestant Hero," I remark farther, that there is a something of real truth in it.
Friedrich's Creed, or Theory of the Universe, differed extremely, in many important points, from that of Dr.Martin Luther: but in the vital all-essential point, what we may call the heart's core of all Creeds which are human, human and not simious or diabolic, the King and the Doctor were with their whole heart at one: That it is not allowable, that it is dangerous and abominable, to attempt believing what is not true.

In that sense, Friedrich, by nature and position, was a Protestant, and even the chief Protestant in the world.

What kind of "Hero," in this big War of his, we are gradually learning;--in which too, if you investigate, there is not wanting something of "PROTESTANT Heroism," even in the narrow sense.