FREDERICK THE GREAT
By Thomas Carlyle
Contents
BOOK III. THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. (1412)-1718
Chapter I. KURFURST FRIEDRICH I.
Chapter II. MATINEES DU ROI DE PRUSSE.
Chapter III. KURFURST FRIEDRICH II.
Chapter IV. KURFURST ALBERT ACHILLES, AND HIS SUCCESSOR.
JOHANN THE CICERO IS FOURTH KURFURST, AND LEAVES TWO NOTABLE SONS.
Chapter V. OF THE BAIREUTH-ANSPACH BRANCH.
TWO LINES IN CULMBACH OR BAIREUTH-ANSPACH: THE GERA BOND OF 1598.
THE ELDER LINE OF CULMBACH: FRIEDRICH AND HIS THREE NOTABLE SONS THERE.
FRIEDRICH'S SECOND SON, MARGRAF GEORGE OF ANSPACH.
Chapter VI. HOCHMEISTER ALBERT, THIRD NOTABLE SON OF FRIEDRICH.
Chapter VII. ALBERT ALCIBIADES.
Chapter VIII. HISTORICAL MEANING OF THE REFORMATION.
Chapter IX. KURFURST JOACHIM I.
Chapter X. KURFURST JOACHIM II.
JOACHIM GETS CO-INVESTMENT IN PREUSSEN.
JOACHIM MAKES "HERITAGE-BROTHERHOOD" WITH THE DUKE OF LIEGNITZ.
Chapter XI. SEVENTH KURFURST, JOHANN GEORGE.
Chapter XII. OF ALBERT FRIEDRICH, THE SECOND DUKE OF PREUSSEN.
OF DUKE ALBERT FRIEDRICH'S MARRIAGE: WHO HIS WIFE WAS, AND WHAT HER POSSIBLE DOWRY.
MARGRAF GEORGE FRIEDRICH COMES TO PREUSSEN TO ADMINISTER.
Chapter XIII. NINTH KURFURST, JOHANN SIGISMUND.
HOW THE CLEVE HERITAGE DROPPED, AND MANY SPRANG TO PICK IT UP.
THE KAISER'S THOUGHTS ABOUT IT, AND THE WORLD'S.
Chapter XIV. SYMPTOMS OF A GREAT WAR COMING.
FIRST SYMPTOM; DONAUWORTH, 1608.
SYMPTOM THIRD: A DINNER-SCENE AT DUSSELDORF, 1613: SPANIARDS AND DUTCH SHOULDER ARMS IN CLEVE.
SYMPTOM FOURTH, AND CATASTROPHE UPON THE HEELS OF IT.
WHAT BECAME OF THE CLEVE-JULICH HERITAGE, AND OF THE PREUSSEN ONE.
Chapter XV. TENTH KURFURST, GEORGE WILHELM.
Chapter XVI. THIRTY-YEARS WAR.
SECOND ACT, OR EPOCH, 1624-1629. A SECOND UNCLE PUT TO THE BAN, AND POMMERN SNATCHED AWAY.
THIRD ACT, AND WHAT THE KURFURST SUFFERED IN IT.
Chapter XVII. DUCHY OF JAGERNDORF.
DUKE OF JAGERNDORF, ELECTOR'S UNCLE, IS PUT UNDER BAN.
Chapter XVIII. FRIEDRICH WILHELM, THE GREAT KURFURST, ELEVENTH OF THE SERIES.
WHAT BECAME OF POMMERN AT THE PEACE; FINAL GLANCE INTO CLEVE-JULICH.
THE GREAT KURFURST'S WARS: WHAT HE ACHIEVED IN WAR AND PEACE.
Chapter XIX. KING FRIEDRICH I. AGAIN.
HOW AUSTRIA SETTLED THE SILESIAN CLAIMS.
HIS REAL CHARACTER.
Chapter XX. DEATH OF KING FRIEDRICH I.
THE TWELVE HOHENZOLLERN ELECTORS.
GENEALOGICAL DIAGRAM: THE TWO CULMBACH LINES. 3d KURFURST
