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

CHAPTER X
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He has since been soldiering about, in a loose way, governing Innspruck, fighting the Turks.

But, lately, his elder Brother died childless (year 1716); and left him Kurfurst of the Pfalz.

His fair Radzivil is dead long ago; she, and a successor, or it may be two.

Except one Daughter, whom the fair Radzivil left him, he has no children; and in these times, I think, lives with a third Wife, of the LEFT-HAND kind.
His scarcity of progeny is not so indifferent to my readers as they might suppose.

This new KUR-PFALZ (Elector-Palatine) Karl Philip is by genealogy--who, thinks the reader?
Pfalz-NEUBURG by line; own Grandson of that Wolfgang Wilhelm, who got the slap on the face long since, on account of the Cleve-Julich matter! So it has come round.


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