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History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 14
by Thomas Carlyle

BOOK XIV.
THE SURROUNDING EUROPEAN WAR DOES NOT END.
August, 1742-July, 1744.

Chapter I.
FRIEDRICH RESUMES HIS PEACEABLE PURSUITS.
Friedrich's own Peace being made on such terms, his wish and hope
was, that it might soon be followed by a general European one; that, the
live-coal, which had kindled this War, being quenched, the War itself
might go out. Silesia is his; farther interest in the Controversy, except
that it would end itself in some fair manner, he has none. "Silesia being
settled," think many, thinks Friedrich for one, "what else of real and
solid is there to settle?"
The European Public, or benevolent individuals of it everywhere,
indulged also in this hope. "How glorious is my King, the youngest of
the Kings and the grandest!" exclaims Voltaire (in his Letters to
Friedrich, at this time), and re-exclaims, till Friedrich has to interfere,
and politely stop it: "A King who carries in the one hand an
all-conquering sword, but in the other a blessed olive- branch, and is
the Arbiter of Europe for Peace or War!" "Friedrich the THIRD [so
Voltaire calls him, counting ill, or misled by ignorance of German
nomenclature], Friedrich the Third, I mean Friedrich the Great
(FREDERIC LE GRAND)," will do this, and do that;--probably the
first emergence of that epithet in human speech, as yet in a quite private
hypothetic way. [Letters of Voltaire, in OEuvres de Frederic,
xxii. 100, &c.: this last Letter is of date "July,

1742"--almost contemporary with the" Jauer Transparency" noticed
above.] Opinions about Friedrich's conduct, about his talents, his
moralities, there were many (all wide of the mark): but this seemed
clear, That the weight of such a sword as his, thrown into either scale,
would be decisive; and that he evidently now wished peace. An
unquestionable fact, that latter! Wished it, yes, right heartily; and also
strove to hope,--though with less confidence than the benevolent
outside Public, as knowing the interior of the elements better.
These hopes, how fond they were, we now all know. True, my friends,
the live-coal which kindled this incendiary whirlpool (ONE of the
live-coals, first of them that spread actual flame in these European parts,
and first of them all except Jenkins's Ear) is out, fairly withdrawn; but
the fire, you perceive, rages not the less. The fire will not quench itself,
I doubt, till the bitumen, sulphur and other angry fuel have run much
lower! Austria has fighting men in abundance, England behind it has
guineas; Austria has got injuries, then successes:--there is in Austria
withal a dumb pride, quite equal in pretensions to the vocal vanity of
France, and far more stubborn of humor. The First Nation of the
Universe, rashly hurling its