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

CHAPTER III
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To whom,--for sad reasons that could be given,--"wind and blue vapor (BLAUER DUNST)," artistically managed by the rules of Acoustics and Optics, seem to be all we have left us!-- It must be owned that this man is inflexibly, and with a fierce slow inexorable determination, set upon having realities round him.

There is a divine idea of fact put into him; the genus sham was never hatefuler to any man.

Let it keep out of his way, well beyond the swing of that rattan of his, or it may get something to remember! A just man, too; would not wrong any man, nor play false in word or deed to any man.

What is Justice but another form of the REALITY we love; a truth acted out?
Of all the humbugs or "painted vapors" known, Injustice is the least capable of profiting men or kings! A just man, I say; and a valiant and veracious: but rugged as a wild bear; entirely inarticulate, as if dumb.
No bursts of parliamentary eloquence in him, nor the least tendency that way.

His talent for Stump-Oratory may be reckoned the minimum conceivable, or practically noted a ZERO.


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