FREDERICK THE GREAT By Thomas Carlyle
Contents
Chapter I. DOUBLE-MARRIAGE IS DECIDED ON.
QUEEN SOPHIE DOROTHEE HAS TAKEN TIME BY THE FORELOCK.
PRINCESS AMELIA COMES INTO THE WORLD.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S TEN CHILDREN. Marriage to Sophie Dorothee, 28th November, 1706.
Chapter II. A KAISER HUNTING SHADOWS.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY ON THE TREATY OF UTRECHT.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAS GOT HAPPILY WEDDED.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY AND THE TERMAGANT OF SPAIN.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S PRAGMATIC SANCTION.
THIRD SHADOW: IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S OSTEND COMPANY.
Chapter III. THE SEVEN CRISES OR EUROPEAN TRAVAIL-THROES.
CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI.
CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI GETS THE FLOOR PULLED FROM UNDER IT.
FRANCE AND THE BRITANNIC MAJESTY TRIM THE SHIP AGAIN: HOW
TRAVAIL-THROES OF NATURE FOR BABY CARLOS'S ITALIAN APANAGE; SEVEN IN NUMBER.
Chapter IV. DOUBLE-MARRIAGE TREATY CANNOT BE SIGNED.
Chapter V. CROWN-PRINCE GOES INTO THE POTSDAM GUARDS.
OF THE POTSDAM GIANTS, AS A FACT.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S RECRUITING DIFFICULTIES.
QUEEN SOPHIE'S TROUBLES: GRUMKOW WITH THE OLD DESSAUER, AND GRUMKOW WITHOUT HIM.
Chapter VI. ORDNANCE-MASTER SECKENDORF CROSSES THE PALACE ESPLANADE.
Chapter VII. TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT.
OF GUNDLING, AND THE LITERARY MEN IN TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT.
Chapter VIII. SECKENDORF'S RETORT TO HER MAJESTY.
