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

CHAPTER X
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74.] For the French are Anti-Austrian; and smell great things in the wind.

"That man is mad, your Most Christian Majesty ?" "Not quite; or at any rate not mad only!" think Louis and his Belleisles now.
Dimly poring in those old Books, and squeezing one's way into face-to-face view of the extinct Time, we begin to notice what a clangorous rumor was in Mollwitz to the then generation of mankind;--betokening many things; universal European War, as the first thing.

Which duly came to pass; as did, at a slower rate, the ulterior thing, not yet so apparent, that indeed a new hour had struck on the Time Horologe, that a New Epoch had risen.

Yes, my friends.

New Charles XII.


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