FREDERICK THE GREAT by Thomas Carlyle
Contents
BOOK XXI. AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF FRIEDRICH'S LIFE 1763-1786.
Chapter I. PREFATORY.
Chapter II. REPAIRING OF A RUINED PRUSSIA.
LANDRATH NUSSLER AND THE KING (30th March-3d April, 1763).
III. SATURDAY, APRIL 3d, IN THE SCHLOSS AGAIN: NUSSLER AND LANDRATHS. To them, the KING.
KRIEGSRATH RODEN AND THE KING (6th-13th June, 1763).
OF FRIEDRICH'S NEW EXCISE SYSTEM.
THE NEUE PALAIS, IN SANS-SOUCI NEIGHBORHOOD, IS FOUNDED AND FINISHED (1763-1770).
"OBITUARY IN FRIEDRICH'S CIRCLE TILL 1771."
Chapter III. TROUBLES IN POLAND.
KING OF POLAND DIES; AND THERE ENSUE HUGE ANARCHIES IN THAT COUNTRY.
EX-LOVER PONIATOWSKI BECOMES KING OF POLAND (7th Sept. 1764), AND IS CROWNED WITHOUT LOSS OF HIS HAIR.
FOR SEVERAL YEARS THE DISSIDENT QUESTION CANNOT BE GOT SETTLED;
CONFEDERATION OF BAR ENSUES, ON THE PER-CONTRA SIDE (March
Chapter IV. PARTITION OF POLAND.
FIRST INTERVIEW BETWEEN FRIEDRICH AND KAISER JOSEPH (Neisse, 25th-28th August, 1769).
NEXT YEAR THERE IS A SECOND INTERVIEW; FRIEDRICH MAKING A
RUSSIAN-TURK WAR, FIRST TWO CAMPAIGNS.
PRINCE HENRI HAS BEEN TO SWEDEN; IS SEEN AT PETERSBURG IN
THE EMPRESS-QUEEN TO PRINCE KAUNITZ (Undated: date must be Vienna, February, 1772).
WHAT FRIEDRICH DID WITH HIS NEW ACQUISITION.
Chapter V. A CHAPTER OF MISCELLANIES.
HERR DOCTOR ZIMMERMANN, THE FAMOUS AUTHOR OF THE BOOK "ON
SISTER ULRIQUE, QUEEN-DOWAGER OF SWEDEN, REVISITS HER NATIVE PLACE (December, 1771-August, 1772).
WILHELMINA'S DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH FREDERIKE SOPHIE, DUCHESS OF
No. 1. DR BURNEY HAS SIGHT OF VOLTAIRE (July, 1770).
NO. 2. A REVEREND MR. SHERLOCK SEES VOLTAIRE, AND EVEN DINES WITH HIM (April, 1776).
GENERAL OR FIELDMARSHAL CONWAY, DIRECT FROM THE LONDON CIRCLES,
EXUBERANT SHERLOCK AND ELEVEN OTHER ENGLISH ARE PRESENTED TO
Chapter VI. THE BAVARIAN WAR.
Chapter VII. MILLER ARNOLD'S LAWSUIT.
"PROTOCOL [of December 11th, Title already given; [Supra, p.
Chapter VIII. THE FURSTENBUND: FRIEDRICH'S LAST YEARS.
PRINCE DE LIGNE, AFTER TEN YEARS, SEES FRIEDRICH A SECOND TIME; TIME; AND REPORTS WHAT WAS SAID.
HOW GENERAL VON DER MARWITZ, IN EARLY BOYHOOD, SAW FRIEDRICH THE GREAT THREE TIMES (1782-1785).
GENERAL BOUILLE, HOME FROM HIS WEST-INDIAN EXPLOITS, VISITS FRIEDRICH (August 5th-11th, 1784).
Chapter IX. FRIEDRICH'S LAST ILLNESS AND DEATH.
