FREDERICK THE GREAT by Thomas Carlyle
Contents
BOOK XIV. THE SURROUNDING EUROPEAN WAR DOES NOT END. August, 1742-July, 1744.
Chapter I. FRIEDRICH RESUMES HIS PEACEABLE PURSUITS.
SETTLES THE SILESIAN BOUNDARIES, THE SILESIAN ARRANGEMENTS; WITH MANIFEST PROFIT TO SILESIA AND HIMSELF.
OPENING OF THE OPERA-HOUSE AT BERLIN.
FRIEDRICH TAKES THE WATERS AT AACHEN, WHERE VOLTAIRE COMES TO SEE HIM.
Chapter II. AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS ARE ON THE MOUNTING HAND.
WAR-PHENOMENA IN THE WESTERN PARTS: KING GEORGE TRIES, A SECOND
HOW DUC D'HARCOURT, ADVANCING TO REINFORCE THE ORIFLAMME, HAD
HOW BELLEISLE, RETURNING FROM DRESDEN WITHOUT CO-OPERATION
CONCERNING THE ITALIAN WAR WHICH SIMULTANEOUSLY WENT ON, ALL ALONG.
SCENE, ROADS OF CADIZ, October, 1741: BY WHAT ASTONISHING
OTHER SCENE, BAY OF NAPLES, 19th-20th August, 1742: KING OF TWO
THE SIEGE OF PRAG CONTIMES. A GRAND SALLY THERE.
MAILLEBOIS MARCHES, WITH AN "ARMY OF REDEMPTION" OR "OF
PRINCE KARL AND THE GRAND-DUKE, HEARING OF MAILLEBOIS, GO TO
THE MAILLEBOIS ARMY OF REDEMPTION CANNOT REDEEM AT ALL; HAS TO
VOLTAIRE HAS BEEN ON VISIT AT AACHEN, IN THE INTERIM, HIS THIRD VISIT TO KING FRIEDRICH.
THREE LETTERS OF VOLTAIRE, DATED BRUSSELS, 10th SEPT. 1742.
Chapter III. CARNIVAL PHENOMENA IN WAR-TIME.
RETREAT FROM PRAG; ARMY OF THE ORIFLAMME, BOHEMIAN SECTION BOHEMIAN SECTION OF IT, MAKES EXIT.
A GLANCE AT VIENNA, AND THEN AT BERLIN.
VOLTAIRE, AT PARIS, IS MADE IMMORTAL BY A KISS.
Chapter IV. AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS MOUNT TO A DANGEROUS HEIGHT.
BRITANNIC MAJESTY, WITH SWORD ACTUALLY DRAWN, HAS MARCHED
FRIEDRICH HAS OBJECTIONS TO THE PRAGMATIC ARMY; BUT IN VAIN. OF
Chapter V. BRITANNIC MAJESTY FIGHTS HIS BATTLE OF DETTINGEN;
BATTLE OF DETTINGEN.
BRITANNIC MAJESTY HOLDS HIS CONFERENCES OF HANAU.
HUNGARIAN MAJESTY ANSWERS, IN THE DIET, THAT FRENCH
BRITANNIC MAJESTY GOES HOME.
Chapter VI. VOLTAIRE VISITS FRIEDRICH FOR THE FOURTH TIME.
FRIEDRICH VISITS BAIREUTH: ON A PARTICULAR ERRAND; VOLTAIRE ATTENDING, AND PRIVATELY REPORTING.
Chapter VII. FRIEDRICH MAKES TREATY WITH FRANCE; AND SILENTLY GETS READY.
Chapter VIII. PERFECT PEACE AT BERLIN, WAR ALL ROUND.
THE SUCCESSION IN RUSSIA, AND ALSO IN SWEDEN, SHALL NOT BE
GLANCE AT THE BELLIGERENT POWERS; BRITANNIC MAJESTY NARROWLY
THE YOUNG DUKE OF WURTEMBERG GETS A VALEDICTORY ADVICE; AND
TWO CONQUESTS FOR PRUSSIA, A GASEOUS AND A SOLID: CONQUEST FIRST, BARBERINA THE DANCER.
CONQUEST SECOND IS OST-FRIESLAND, OF A SOLID NATURE.
