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

CHAPTER XIX
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But if God shall one day send the opportunity, those that come after me will know what they have to do in such case." [Pauli, vii.

150.] And so Schwiebus was given up, the Austrians paying back what Brandenburg had laid out in improving it, "250,000 GULDEN (25,000 pounds);"-- and the Hand of Power had in this way, finally as it hoped, settled an old troublesome account of Brandenburg's.

Settled the Silesian-Duchies Claim, by the temporary Phantasm of a Gift of Schwiebus.

That is literally the Liegnitz-Jagerndorf case; and the reader is to note it and remember it.

For it will turn up again in History.


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