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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. IX. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER X
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part 3d, p.

181.] "FRIEDRICH." No laurels to be gained here; but plenty of mud, and laborious hardship,--met, as we perceive, with youthful stoicism, of the derisive, and perhaps of better forms.

Friedrich is twenty-two and some months, when he makes his first Campaign.

The general physiognomy of his behavior in it we have to guess from these few indications.

No doubt he profited by it, on the military side; and would study with quite new light and vivacity after such contact with the fact studied of.


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