[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 XIII 19/26
The Prussians, as we once mentioned, still use it as their school-model in those respects.
And we--O readers, do not at least you and I thank God to have now done with it!-- Of the Peace-Treaties at Hubertsburg, Paris and other places, it is not necessary that we say almost anything.
They are to be found in innumerable Books, dreary to the mind; and of the 158 Articles to be counted there, not one could be interesting at present.
The substance of the whole lies now in Three Points, not mentioned or contemplated at all in those Documents, though repeatedly alluded to and intimated by us here. The issue, as between Austria and Prussia, strives to be, in all points, simply AS-YOU-WERE; and, in all outward or tangible points, strictly is so.
After such a tornado of strife as the civilized world had not witnessed since the Thirty-Years War.
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