History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great, Volume 2

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Chapman and Hall, 1858 - 778 pagine

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Pagina 303 - This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Pagina 419 - And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Pagina 432 - To him that hath shall be given ; and from him that hath not shall be taken away even that he hath.
Pagina 297 - Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Pagina 121 - And they called Rebekah, and said unto her, Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.
Pagina 419 - Now the Lord had said unto Abraham, get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee...
Pagina 30 - 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 valor, to amend us and the age of bronze and lacquer, how can they ever come?
Pagina 291 - 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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