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History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Thomas Carlyle
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in fact, it fails in nothing; and is got all done ("wood laid out
to season straightway," and "what digging and stubbing there is,
proceeded with through the winter"): done in a successful and
instructive manner, both Carzig and Himmelstadt, though we will
say nothing farther of them. [Forster, i. 387-392.]

CUSTRIN, 22d SEPTEMBER (Crown-Prince to Papa). ... "Have been at
Lebus; excellent land out there; fine weather for the husbandman."
"Major Roder," unknown Major, "passed this way; and dined with me,
last Wednesday. He has got a pretty fellow (SCHONEN KERL) for my
Most All-Gracious Father's regiment [the Potsdam Giants, where I
used to be]; whom I could not look upon without bleeding heart.
I depend on my Most All-Gracious Father's Grace, that he will be
good to me: I ask for nothing and no happiness in the world but
what comes from You; and hope You will, some day, remember me in
grace, and give me the Blue Coat to put on again!" [BRIEFWECHSEL
MIT VATER (OEuvres, xxvii. part 3d, p. 27).]--To which Papa
answers nothing, or only "Hm, na, time MAY come!"

Carzig goes on straightway; Papa charmed to grant the moneys;
"wood laid out to season," and much "stubbing and digging" set on
foot, before the month ends. Carzig; and directly on the heel of
it, on like terms, Himmelstadt,--but of all this we must say no
more. It is clear the Prince is learning the Domain Sciences;
eager to prove himself a perfect son in the eyes of Papa. Papa, in
hopeful moments, asks himself: "To whom shall we marry him, then;
how settle him?" But what the Prince, in his own heart, thought of
it all; how he looked, talked, lived, in unofficial times?
Here has a crabbed dim Document turned up, which, if it were not
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