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Pagina 126 - which lasted miscellaneously for weeks) • —but the King stole away to see a friend who was dying; that poor Duhan de Jaudun, his early Schoolmaster, who had suffered much for him, and whom he always much loved. Duhan died, in a day or two. Poor Jordan, poor Keyserling (the
Pagina 182 - I think; better than io/. of our day to a common man, and better than ioo/. to a Linsenbarth),—'saying, The King sent me this ' to take me home to Berlin again. 'And if the hussar took me into the Palace, it was now the Secre' tary that took me out again. And there, yoked with six horses,
Pagina 87 - for rye' (modern Tourist says snappishly, There are many such; whole region now drained; reminded me of Yorkshire Highlands, with the Western Sun gilding it, that fine afternoon!)—' ploughable for rye, ' buckwheat; boggy grass to be gathered in summer; charcoaling to do; ' pigs at least are presumable, among these straggling outposts of
Pagina 163 - 1750, flung prostrate suddenly: "Putrid fever!" ' gloom the Doctors ominously to one another : and, November 3oth, ' the Devil (I am afraid it was he, though clad in roseate effulgence, and ' melodious exceedingly) carried him home on those kind terms, as from ' a Universe all of Opera. "Wait till 1759,—till 1789!" murmured ' the Devil to himself.
Pagina 246 - Thank you, my Perpetual President, not the less!— Of Maupertuis, in successive Phases.— * ° " Maupertuis is not " of very engaging ways; he takes my dimensions harshly with his " quadrant: it is said there enters something of envy into his data." ° ° "A somewhat surly gentleman; not too sociable; and, truth to " say, considerably sunk here
Pagina 51 - he intends that all Detachments shall be home, and the Army take ' Camp there. The most are home; Margraf Karl, at Jagerndorf, has ' not yet done eating his magazine; but he too must come home. Sum' mon the Margraf home:—it is not doubted he will cut himself through,
Pagina 10 - at once' (Bathyani beating it to pieces, as will be seen),—'the ruins of it pain' fully reacting on Attempt First; which had the like fate some months ' later;—and there was no Third made. And, in fact, from the date ' of that latter downbreak, August, or end of July, 1745' (and quite especially from
Pagina 181 - K'onig,—thy King particularly?) "in the Garden?" I ans' wered, " Here!" And he led me into the Schloss, to a large Room, ' where pages, lackeys, and Kammer-hussars were about. My Kam' mer-hussar took me to a little table, excellently furnished; with soup, ' beef; likewise carp dressed with garden-salad, likewise game with
Pagina 52 - Majesty. At the Prussian lines, he ' is informed, "Yes, you can go; but, without our King's Order, you ' cannot return." "What? The Most Christian Majesty's Ambas' sador, and treated in this way ? I will go to where the Polish King ' is, and I will return to my own King, so often as I find business
Pagina 204 - imaginary, and thus, in the course of years, the thing burnt to the ' socket, and went out.' Voltaire's rash Adventure, dangerous Navigation and gradual Wreck, in this Forbidden Sea of Steuer-Scheine,—will become conceivable to readers, on study diligent enough of the following Documents and select Details : Document First (a small Missive, in Voltaire's hand). "Jeprie