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

CHAPTER II
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"'That is the object of all my endeavors.'" (EXIT:--I did not hear specially whitherward just now; but he comes to be supreme Kammer-President in those parts by and by.) "The Herr Kriegsrath Coper was present, and noted all the Orders to he expedited." [Preuss, ii.

442; Rodenbeck, ii.

217, 218: in regard to D'Alembert, see _OEuvres de Frederic,_ xxiv.

190.] These snatches of notice at first-hand, and what the reader's fancy may make of these, are all we can bestow on this Section of Friedrich's Labors; which is naturally more interesting to Prussian readers than to English.

He has himself given lucid and eloquent account of it,--Two ample Chapters, "DES FINANCES;" "DU MILITAIRE," [_OEuvres de Frederic,_ vii.


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