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-- FRIEDRICH WILHELM, THE GREAT KURFURST, ELEVENTH OF THE.
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Brandenburg had again sunk very low under the Tenth Elector, in the unutterable troubles of the times.

But it was gloriously raised up again by his Son Friedrich Wilhelm, who succeeded in 1640.

This is he whom they call the "Great Elector (GROSSE KURFURST);" of whom there is much writing and celebrating in Prussian Books.

As for the epithet, it is not uncommon among petty German populations, and many times does not mean too much: thus Max of Bavaria, with his Jesuit Lambkins and Hyacinths, is, by Bavarians, called "Maximilian the Great." Friedrich Wilhelm, both by his intrinsic qualities and the success he met with, deserves it better than most.