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

CHAPTER I
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Most certain it is, there will no Friedrich come to rule there; by and by, there will none be born there.

Such Nations cannot have a King to command them; can only have this or the other scandalous swindling Copper Captain, constitutional Gilt Mountebank, or other the like unsalutary entity by way of King; and the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children in a frightful and tragical manner, little noticed in the Penny Newspapers and Periodical Literatures of this generation.

Oh, my friends--! But there is plain Business waiting us at hand..


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