[History of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. XX. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link bookHistory of Friedrich II. of Prussia Vol. XX. (of XXI.) CHAPTER X 29/86
Your preceding Letters [from March 16th hitherto], on which I have wished to be silent, and this last proof of want of affection, show me too clearly to what fortune I have sacrificed these Six Years of Campaigning." KING (3d April: Official Orders given in Teutsch; at the tail of which). "Spare your wrath and indignation at your servant, Monseigneur! You, who preach indulgence, have a little of it for persons who have no intention of offending you, or of failing in respect for you; and deign to receive with more benignity the humble representations which the conjunctures sometimes force from me.
F."-- Which relieves Eichel of his difficulties, and quenches this sputter.
[Plucked up from the waste imbroglios of SCHONING (iii.
296-311), by arranging and omitting.] Prince Henri, for all his complaining, did beautifully this Season again (though to us it must be silent, being small-war merely;--and in particular, MAY 12th) early in the morning, simultaneously in many different parts, burst across the Mulda, ten or twenty miles long (or BROAD rather, from his right hand to his left), sudden as lightning, upon the supine Serbelloni and his Austrians and Reichsfolk.
And hurled them back, one and all, almost to the Plauen Chasm and their old haunts; widening his quarters notably.
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