too,--which has sat down quietly, for almost a century back, under
mountains of nonsense, inwardly nothing but dim Scepticism [except
in the stomachic regions], and outwardly such a Trinacria of
Hypocrisy [unconscious, for most part] as never lay on an honest
giant Nation before, was itself grown much of a fool, and could
expect no other kind of Kings.

"But the point intensely interesting to Friedrich in this Treaty of
Worms was, That, in enumerating punctually the other Treaties, old
and recent, which it is to guarantee, and stand upon the basis of,
there is nowhere the least mention of Friedrich's
BRESLAU-AND-BERLIN TREATY; thrice-important Treaty with her
Hungarian Majesty on the Silesian matter! In settling all manner of
adjoining and preceding matters, there is nothing said of Silesia
at all. Singular indeed. Treaties enough, from that of Utrecht
downward, are wearisomely mentioned here; but of the Berlin Treaty,
Breslau Treaty, or any Treaty settling Silesia,--much less, of any
Westminster Treaty, guaranteeing it to the King of Prussia,--there
is not the faintest mention! Silesia, then, is not considered
settled, by the high contracting parties? Little George himself,
who guaranteed it, in the hour of need, little more than a year
ago, considers it fallen loose again in the new whirl of
contingencies? 'Patience, Madam: what was good to give is good to
take!' On what precise day or month Friedrich got notice of this
expressive silence in the Treaty of Worms, we do not know; but from
that day--!"

Friedrich recollects another thing, one of many others: that of
those "ulterior mountains," which Austria had bargained for as
Boundary to Schlesien. Wild bare mountains; good for what? For