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

CHAPTER XIII
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Tornado springing doubtless from the regions called Infernal; and darkening the upper world from south to north, and from east to west for Seven Years long;--issuing in general AS-YOU-WERE! Yes truly, the tornado was Infernal; but Heaven too had silently its purposes in it.

Nor is the mere expenditure of men's diabolic rages, in mutual clash as of opposite electricities, with reduction to equipoise, and restoration of zero and repose again after seven years, the one or the principal result arrived at.

Inarticulately, little dreamt of at the time by any by-stander, the results, on survey from this distance, are visible as Threefold.

Let us name them one other time:-- 1.

There is no taking of Silesia from this man; no clipping of him down to the orthodox old limits; he and his Country have palpably outgrown these.


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