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

CHAPTER IV
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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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