[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 IV 11/37
Adieu." Or, again, TO HENRI: Berlin? Yes; I am trying something in bar of that. Have a bad time of it, in the interim." Our means, my dear Brother, are so eaten away; far too short for opposing the prodigious number of our enemies set against us:--if we must fall, let us date our destruction from the infamous Day of Maxen!" Is in such health, too, all the while: "Am a little better, thank you; yet have still the"-- what shall we say (dreadful biliary affair)? --"HEMORRHOIDES AVEUGLES: nothing that, were it not for the disquietudes I feel: but all ends in this world, and so will these. ...
I flatter myself your health is recovering.
For these three days in continuance I have had so terrible a cramp, I thought it would choke me;--it is now a little gone.
No wonder the chagrins and continual disquietudes I live in should undermine and at length overturn the robustest constitution." [Schoning, ii.
419: "2d October." Ib.ii.
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