FREDERICK THE GREAT by Thomas Carlyle
Contents
BOOK XVI. THE TEN YEARS OF PEACE. 1746-1756.
Chapter I. SANS-SOUCI.
FRIEDRICH DECLINES THE CAREER OF CONQUERING HERO; GOES INTO
Chapter II. PEEP AT VOLTAIRE AND HIS DIVINE EMILIE (BY CANDLELIGHT) IN THE TIDE OF EVENTS.
VOLTAIRE AND THE DIVINE EMILIE APPEAR SUDDENLY, ONE NIGHT, AT SCEAUX.
WAR-PASSAGES IN 1747.
MARSHAL KEITH COMES TO PRUSSIA (September, 1747).
Chapter III. EUROPEAN WAR FALLS DONE: TREATY OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE.
MARECHAL DE SAXE PAYS FRIEDRICH A VISIT.
TRAGIC NEWS, THAT CONCERN US, OF VOLTAIRE AND OTHERS.
Chapter IV. COCCEJI FINISHES THE LAW-REFORM; FRIEDRICH IS PRINTING HIS POESIES.
Chapter V. STRANGERS OF NOTE COME TO BERLIN, IN 1750.
CANDIDATUS LINSENBARTH (QUASI "Lentil-beard") LIKEWISE VISITS BERLIN.
SIR JONAS HANWAY STALKS ACROSS THE SCENE, TOO; IN A PONDERING AND OBSERVING MANNER.
Chapter VI. BERLIN CARROUSEL, AND VOLTAIRE VISIBLE THERE.
PERPETUAL PRESIDENT MAUPERTUIS HAS A VISIT FROM ONE KONIG, OUT
Chapter VII. M. DE VOLTAIRE HAS A PAINFUL JEW-LAWSUIT.
THE VOLTAIRE-HIRSCH TRANSACTION: PART I. ORIGIN OF LAWSUIT (10th November-25th December, 1750).
PART II. THE LAWSUIT ITSELF (30th December, 1750-18th and 26th February, 1751).
Chapter VIII. OST-FRIESLAND AND THE SHIPPING INTERESTS.
FRIEDRIAH VISITS OST-FRIESLAND.
Chapter IX. SECOND ACT OF THE VOLTAIRE VISIT.
DETACHED FEATURES (NOT FABULOUS) OF VOLTAIRE AND HIS BERLIN-POTSDAM ENVIRONMENT IN 1751-1752.
FRACTIONS OF EVENTS AND INDICATIONS, FROM VOLTAIRE HIMSELF, IN
Chapter X. DEMON NEWSWRITER, OF 1752.
A DEMON NEWSWRITER GIVES AN "IDEA" OF FRIEDRICH; INTELLIGIBLE
Chapter XI. THIRD ACT AND CATASTROPHE OF THE VOLTAIRE VISIT.
"ANSWER FROM [VERY PRIVATELY VOLTAIRE, CALLING HIMSELF] A BERLIN ACADEMICIAN TO A PARIS ONE.
Chapter XII. OF THE AFTERPIECE, WHICH PROVED STILL MORE TRAGICAL.
PART I. FREDERSDORF SENDS INSTRUCTIONS; THE "OEUVRE DE POESIE" IS GOT; BUT
PART II. VOLTAIRE, IN SPITE OF HIS EFFORTS, DOES GET AWAY (June 20th-July 7th).
Chapter XIII. ROMISH-KING QUESTION; ENGLISH-PRIVATEER QUESTION.
Chapter XIV. THERE IS LIKE TO BE ANOTHER WAR AHEAD.
Chapter XV. ANTI-PRUSSIAN WAR-SYMPTOMS: FRIEDRICH VISIBLE FOR A MOMENT.
"EXTRACTUS PROTOCOLLORUM IN INQUISITIONS-SACHEN," THAT IS TO
FRIEDRICH IS VISIBLE, IN HOLLAND, TO THE NAKED EYE, FOR SOME MINUTES (June 23d, 1755).
