and of Frederick the Great....

Never did the council adjourn without its members knowing more than the day before; if not through knowledge derived from him, at least through the researches he obliged them to make.

Never did the members of the Senate and the Legislative Corps, or of the tribunals, pay their respects to him without being rewarded for their homage by valuable instructions.

He cannot be surrounded by public men without being the statesman, all forming for him a council of state." "What characterizes him above them all," is not alone the penetration and universality of his comprehension, but likewise and especially "the force, flexibility, and constancy of his attention.

He can work eighteen hours at a stretch, on one or on several subjects.