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

CHAPTER III
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Made his first public appearance on the streets of Warsaw, in the late Election time, as a Captain of Patriot Volunteers,--'Independence of Poland! Shall Poland be dictated to!" cried Stanislaus and an indignant Public at one stage of the affair.

His Uncles Czartoryski were piloting him in; and in that mad element, the cries, and shiftings of tack, had to be many.

[In HERMANN, v.

362-380 (still more in RULHIERE, ii.

119-289), wearisome account of every particular.] He is Nephew, by his mother, of these Czartoryskis; but is not by the father of very high family.


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