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Prepared by D.R. Thompson

Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia" Book XIII

FIRST SILESIAN WAR, LEAVING THE GENERAL EUROPEAN
ONE ABLAZE ALL ROUND, GETS ENDED.
May, 1741-July, 1742.

Chapter I.
BRITANNIC MAJESTY AS PALADIN OF THE PRAGMATIC.
Part First of his Britannic Majesty's Sorrows, the Britannic or Domestic
Part, is now perhaps conceivable to readers. But as to the Second, the
Germanic or Pragmatic Part,--articulate History, after much
consideration, is content to renounce attempting these; feels that these
will remain forever inconceivable to mankind in the now altered times.
So small a gentleman; and he feels, dismally though with heroism, that
he has got the axis of the world on his shoulder. Poor Majesty! His eyes,
proud as Jove's, are nothing like so perspicacious; a pair of the poorest
eyes: and he has to scan with them, and unriddle under pain of death,
such a waste of insoluble intricacies, troubles and world-perils as
seldom was,-- even in Dreams. In fact, it is of the nature of a long
Nightmare Dream, all this of the Pragmatic, to his poor Majesty and
Nation; and wakeful History must not spend herself upon it, beyond the
essential.
May 12th, betimes this Year, his Majesty got across to Hanover,
Harrington with him; anxious to contemplate near at hand that Camp of
the Old Dessauer's at Gottin, and the other fearful phenomena, French,
Prussian and other, in that Country. His Majesty, as natural, was much
in Germany in those Years; scanning the phenomena; a long while not
knowing what in the world to make of them. Bully Belleisle having
stept into the ring, it is evident, clear as the sun, that one must act, and

act at once; but it is a perfect sphinx-enigma to say How. Seldom was
Sovereign or man so spurred, and goaded on, by the highest
considerations; and then so held down, and chained to his place, by an
imbroglio of counter- considerations and sphinx-riddles! Thrice over, at
different dates (which shall be given), the first of them this Year, he
starts up as in spasm, determined to draw sword, and plunge in; twice
he is crushed down again, with sword half drawn; and only the third
time (in 1743) does he get sword out, and brandish it in a surprising
though useless manner. After which he feels better. But up to that crisis,
his case is really tragical,--had idle readers any bowels for him; which
they have not! One or two Fractions, snatched from the circumambient
Paper Vortex, must suffice us for the indispensable in this place:--
CUNCTATIONS, YET INCESSANT AND UBIQUITOUS
ENDEAVORINGS, OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY (1741-1743).
... After the wonderful Russian Partition-Treaty, which his English
Walpoles would not hear of,--and which has produced the Camp of
Gottin, see, your Majesty!--George does nothing rashly. Far from it:
indeed,