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

CHAPTER VIII
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Nuggets and ducats are divine; but they are not the most divine.

I often wish the Devil had the lion's share of them,--at once, and not circuitously as now.

It would be an unspeakable advantage to the bewildered sons of Adam, in this epoch! But with regard to our little Crown-Prince's intellectual culture, there is another Document, specially from Papa's hand, which, if we can redact, adjust and abridge it, as in the former case, may be worth the reader's notice, and elucidate some things for him.

It is of date, Wusterhausen, 3d September, 1721; little Fritz now in his tenth year, and out there, with his Duhans and Finkensteins, while Papa is rusticating for a few weeks.

The essential title is, or might be:-- _To Head-Governor van Finkenstein, Sub-Governor von Kalkstein, Preceptor Jacques Egide Duhan de Jandun, and others whom it may concern: Regulations for schooling, at Wusterhausen, 3d September, 1721;_ [Preuss, i.


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