No man of money or rank in Berlin but Derschau is upon him, with heavier and heavier compulsion to build: which is felt to be tyrannous; and occasions an ever-deepening grumble among the moneyed classes.

At Potsdam his Majesty himself is the Builder; and gives the Houses away to persons of merit.
[Pollnitz, ii.

469.] Nor is the Army less an object, perhaps almost more.

Nay, at one time, old Kur-Pfalz being reckoned in a dying condition, Friedrich Wilhelm is about ranking his men, prepared to fight for his rights in Julich and Berg; Kaiser having openly gone over, and joined with France against his Majesty in that matter.

However, the old Kur-Pfalz did not die, and there came nothing of fight in Friedrich Wilhelm's time.