History of Friedrich the Second Called Frederick the Great, Band 2

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Harper & Brothers, 1858

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Seite 532 - And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.
Seite 231 - This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Seite 91 - And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
Seite 22 - Surely a day is coming, when it will be known again what virtue is in purity and continence of life ; how divine is the blush of young human cheeks ; how high, beneficent, sternly inexorable if forgotten, is the duty laid, not on women only, but on every creature, in regard to these particulars ? Well ; if such a day never come again, then I perceive much else will never come. Magnanimity and depth of insight will never come ; heroic purity of heart and of eye ; noble pious...
Seite 223 - History," cries the angry reader : "cruel, like the grinding of human hearts under millstones, like — " Or indeed like the doings of the gods, which are cruel, though not that alone ? 11 Letter to Katte's Father (Extract, in Preuss, Friedrich mit Frennden nn1l }~erivunclteu, p.

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