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

CHAPTER VIII
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69 ("Freyberg, 24th Feb.

1760").] IN WINTER-QUARTERS, A MONTH LATER (comes still on "Peace" again).

...
"I will have you paid that bit of debt [perhaps of postage or the like], that Louis of the Mill (Louis du Moulin," at Fontenoy, who got upon a Windmill with his Dauphin, and caught that nickname from the common men) "may have wherewithal to make war on me.

Add tenth-penny tax to your tax of twentieth-penny; impose new capitations, make titular offices to get money; do, in a word, whatever you like.

In spite of all your efforts, you will not get a Peace signed by my hands, except on conditions honorable to my Nation.


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