Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Mystic on the Prussian Throne: Frederick-William II
The reasons for this are Obvious. It fills an intermediate space between the careers of two men Of Vivid and remarkable personality who, each in his turn, filled the centre Of the stage Of European history and concentrated upon himself the interest of civilised nations - two men, moreover, who were the greatest military geniuses of modern times.
Lying thus, a point Of Shadow between two bril liant lights, this period has not unnaturally been frequently overlooked. The eighteenth century belongs to Frederick the Great, the soldier Of uh conquerable spirit who held half Europe at bay; the philosopher-king who loved to gather Choice spirits around him, and found leisure for literary correspondence and Composition in the midst of war's turmoils; the recluse of Sans Souci, about whose eccentric ways and doings such innumerable stories were told.
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