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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Volume IV. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER IX
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[Zollner, _Briefe uber Schlesien_ (Berlin, 1792), i.

2, 3; Wilhelmina, i.

364, 365.] Such is Wusterhausen, as delineated by a vehement Princess, some years hence,--who becomes at last intelligible, by study and the aid of our Silesian Tourist.

It is not distinguished among Country Palaces: but the figure of Friedrich Wilhelm asleep there after dinner, regardless of the flaming sun (should he sleep too long and the shadow of his Linden quit him),--this is a sight which no other Palace in the world can match; this will long render Wusterhausen memorable to me.

His Majesty, early always as the swallows, hunts, I should suppose, in the morning; dines and sleeps, we may perceive, till towards three, or later.


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