[History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia Volume IV. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link bookHistory Of Friedrich II. of Prussia Volume IV. (of XXI.) CHAPTER X 19/26
Karl Philip felt so disgusted with these results, he removed his Court, that same year, to Mannheim; quitted Heidelberg; to the discouragement and visible decay of the place; and, in spite of humble petitions and remonstrances, never would return; neither he nor those that followed him would shift from Mannheim again, to this day. PRUSSIAN MAJESTY HAS DISPLEASED THE KAISER AND THE KING OF POLAND. Friedrich Wilhelm's praises from the Protestant public were great, on this occasion.
Nor can we, who lie much farther from it in every sense, refuse him some grin of approval.
Act, and manner of doing the act, are creditably of a piece with Friedrich Wilhelm; physiognomic of the rugged veracious man.
It is one of several such acts done by him: for it was a duty apt to recur in Germany, in his day.
This duty Friedrich Wilhelm, a solid Protestant after his sort, and convinced of the "nothingness and nonsensicality (UNGRUND UND ABSURDITAT) of Papistry," was always honorably prompt to do.
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