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

CHAPTER IV
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[Busching, _Beitrage,_ i.

568.] His Majesty spoke through the nose; snuffled his speech in an earnest ominously plangent manner.
In angry moments, which were frequent, it must have been--unpleasant to listen to.

For the rest, a handsome man of his inches; conspicuously well-built in limbs and body, and delicately finished off to the very extremities.

His feet and legs, says Pollnitz, were very fine.

The hands, if he would have taken care of them, were beautifully white; fingers long and thin; a hand at once nimble to grasp, delicate to feel, and strong to clutch and hold: what may be called a beautiful hand, because it is the usefulest.
Nothing could exceed his Majesty's simplicity of habitudes.


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