FREDERICK THE GREAT
By Thomas Carlyle
Contents FREDERICK THE GREAT.
Chapter I. PROEM: FRIEDRICH'S HISTORY FROM THE DISTANCE WE ARE AT.
1. FRIEDRICH THEN, AND FRIEDRICH NOW.
2. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
3. ENGLISH PREPOSSESSIONS.
4. ENCOURAGEMENTS, DISCOURAGEMENTS.
Chapter II. FRIEDRICH'S BIRTH.
Chapter III. FATHER AND MOTHER: THE HANOVERIAN CONNECTION.
Chapter IV. FATHER'S MOTHER.
Chapter V. KING FRIEDRICH I.