Prepared by D.R. Thompson HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II. OF PRUSSIA FREDERICK THE GREAT by THOMAS CARLYLE FREDERICK THE GREAT. Book I. BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. 1712. Chapter I. PROEM: FRIEDRICH’S HISTORY FROM THE DISTANCE WE ARE AT. About fourscore years ago, there used to be seen sauntering on the terraces of Sans Souci, for a short
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
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Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle
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Appendix to History of Friedrich II of Prussia by Thomas Carlyle
Prepared by D.R. Thompson APPENDIX. This Piece, it would seem, was translated sixteen years ago; some four or five years before any part of the present HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH got to paper. The intercalated bits of Commentary were, as is evident, all or mostly written at the same time:–these also, though they are now become,