HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II.
OF PRUSSIA
FREDERICK THE GREAT
By Thomas Carlyle
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
BOOKS CHAPTERS
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22 VOLUMES
BOOKS
BOOK II. — OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. - 928-1417.
BOOK III. — THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. - 1412-1718
BOOK IV. — FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP, FIRST STAGE. - 1713-1728.
BOOK V. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO. - 1723-1726.
BOOK VI. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND CROWN-PRINCE, GOING ADRIFT UNDER THE STORM-WINDS. - 1727-1730.
BOOK VII. — FEARFUL SHIPWRECK OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT. - Feb.-Nov., 1730.
BOOK VIII. — CROWN-PRINCE REPRIEVED: LIFE AT CUSTRIN - Nov. 1730-February, 1732.
BOOK IX. — LAST STAGE OF FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP: LIFE IN RUPPIN. - 1732-1736.
BOOK X. — AT REINSBERG. - 1736-1740.
BOOK XI. — FRIEDRICH TAKES THE REINS IN HAND. — June-December, 1740.
BOOK XII. — FIRST SILESIAN WAR, AWAKENING A GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE, BEGINS. — December, 1740-May, 1741.
BOOK XIII. — FIRST SILESIAN WAR, LEAVING THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE ABLAZE ALL ROUND, GETS ENDED. — May, 1741-July, 1742.
BOOK XIV.—THE SURROUNDING EUROPEAN WAR DOES NOT END.—August, 1742-July, 1744.
BOOK XV.—SECOND SILESIAN WAR, IMPORTANT EPISODE IN THE GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE.—15th Aug. 1744-25th Dec. 1745.
BOOK XVI.—THE TEN YEARS OF PEACE.—1746-1756
Book XVII—THE
BOOK XVIII.—SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT.—1757-1759.
BOOK XVIII (CONTINUED)—SEVEN-YEARS WAR RISES TO A HEIGHT. 1757-1759.
BOOK XIX.—FRIEDRICH LIKE TO BE OVERWHELMED IN THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR.—1759-1760.
BOOK XX.—FRIEDRICH IS NOT TO BE OVERWHELMED: THE SEVEN-YEARS WAR GRADUALLY ENDS—25th April, 1760-15th February, 1763.
BOOK XXI.—AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF FRIEDRICH'S LIFE—1763-1786.
APPENDIX.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF ALL CHAPTERS
BOOK I. — BIRTH AND PARENTAGE. — 1712.
Chapter I. — PROEM: FRIEDRICH'S HISTORY FROM THE DISTANCE WE ARE AT.2. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
3. ENGLISH PREPOSSESSIONS.
4. ENCOURAGEMENTS, DISCOURAGEMENTS.
Chapter II. — FRIEDRICH'S BIRTH.
Chapter III. — FATHER AND MOTHER: THE HANOVERIAN CONNECTION.
Chapter IV. — FATHER'S MOTHER.
Chapter V. — KING FRIEDRICH I.
BOOK II. — OF BRANDENBURG AND THE HOHENZOLLERNS. - 928-1417.
Chapter I. — BRANNIBOR: HENRY THE FOWLER.Chapter II. — PREUSSEN: SAINT ADALBERT.
Chapter III. — MARKGRAVES OF BRANDENBURG.
SECOND SHADOWY LINE.
SUBSTANTIAL MARKGRAVES: GLIMPSE OF THE CONTEMPORARY KAISERS.
Chapter IV. — ALBERT THE BEAR.
Chapter V. — CONRAD OF HOHENZOLLERN; AND KAISER BARBAROSSA.
OF THE HOHENZOLLERN BURGGRAVES GENERALLY.
Chapter VI. — THE TEUTSCH RITTERS OR TEUTONIC ORDER.
TEUTSCH ORDER ITSELF GOES TO PREUSSEN.
THE STUFF TEUTSCH RITTERS WERE MADE OF CONRAD OF THURINGEN: SAINT ELIZABETH; TOWN OF MARBURG.
Chapter VII. — MARGRAVIATE OF CULMBACH: BAIREUTH, ANSPACH.
KAISER RUDOLF AND BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH III.
Chapter VIII. — ASCANIER MARKGRAVES IN BRANDENBURG.
MARKGRAF OTTO IV., OR OTTO WITH THE ARROW
Chapter IX. — BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH IV.
OF KAISER HENRY VII. AND THE LUXEMBURG KAISERS.
HENRY'S SON JOHANN IS KING OF BOHEMIA; AND LUDWIG THE BAVARIAN, WITH A CONTESTED ELECTION, IS KAISER.
Chapter X. — BRANDENBURG LAPSES TO THE KAISER.
Chapter XI. — BAYARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.
MARGARET WITH THE POUCH-MOUTH.
Chapter XII. — BRANDENBURG IN KAISER KARL'S TIME; END OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS.
SECOND, AND THEN THIRD AND LAST, OF THE BAVARIAN KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.
Chapter XIII. — LUXEMBURG KURFURSTS IN BRANDENBURG.
Chapter XIV. — BURGGRAF FRIEDRICH VI.
COUSIN JOBST HAS BRANDENBURG IN PAWN.
BRANDENBURG IN THE HANDS OF THE PAWNBROKERS; RUPERT OF THE PFALZ IS KAISER.
SIGISMUND, WITH A STRUGGLE, BECOMES KAISER.
BRANDENBURG IS PAWNED FOR THE LAST TIME.
THE SEVEN INTERCALARY OR NON-HAPSBURG KAISERS.
BOOK III. — THE HOHENZOLLERNS IN BRANDENBURG. - 1412-1718
Chapter I. — KURFURST FRIEDRICH I.Chapter II. — MATINEES DU ROI DE PRUSSE.
Chapter III. — KURFURST FRIEDRICH
Chapter IV. — KURFURST ALBERT ACHILLES, AND HIS SUCCESSOR.
Chapter V. — OF THE BAIREUTH-ANSPACH BRANCH.
THE ELDER LINE OF CULMBACH: FRIEDRICH AND HIS THREE NOTABLE SONS THERE.
FRIEDRICH'S SECOND SON, MARGRAF GEORGE OF ANSPACH.
Chapter VI. — HOCHMEISTER ALBERT, THIRD NOTABLE SON OF FRIEDRICH.
Chapter VII. — ALBERT ALCIBIADES.
Chapter VIII. — HISTORICAL MEANING OF THE REFORMATION.
Chapter IX. — KURFURST JOACHIM I.
Chapter X. — KURFURST JOACHIM II.
JOACHIM MAKES "HERITAGE-BROTHERHOOD" WITH THE DUKE OF LIEGNITZ.
Chapter XII. — OF ALBERT FRIEDRICH, THE SECOND DUKE OF PREUSSEN.
MARGRAF GEORGE FRIEDRICH COMES TO PREUSSEN TO ADMINISTER.
Chapter XIII. — NINTH KURFURST, JOHANN SIGISMUND.
THE KAISER'S THOUGHTS ABOUT IT, AND THE WORLD'S.
Chapter XIV. — SYMPTOMS OF A GREAT WAR COMING.
SYMPTOM THIRD: A DINNER-SCENE AT DUSSELDORF, 1613: SPANIARDS AND DUTCH SHOULDER ARMS IN CLEVE.
SYMPTOM FOURTH, AND CATASTROPHE UPON THE HEELS OF IT.
WHAT BECAME OF THE CLEVE-JULICH HERITAGE, AND OF THE PREUSSEN ONE.
Chapter XV. — TENTH KURFURST, GEORGE WILHELM.
Chapter XVI. — THIRTY-YEARS WAR.
THIRD ACT, AND WHAT THE KURFURST SUFFERED IN IT.
Chapter XVII. — DUCHY OF JAGERNDORF.
Chapter XVIII. — FRIEDRICH WILHELM, THE GREAT KURFURST, ELEVENTH OF THE SERIES.
THE GREAT KURFURST'S WARS: WHAT HE ACHIEVED IN WAR AND PEACE.
Chapter XIX. — KING FRIEDRICH I. AGAIN.
HIS REAL CHARACTER.
Chapter XX. — DEATH OF KING FRIEDRICH I.
GENEALOGICAL DIAGRAM: THE TWO CULMBACH LINES.
BOOK IV. — FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP, FIRST STAGE. - 1713-1728.
Chapter I. — CHILDHOOD: DOUBLE EDUCATIONAL ELEMENT.Chapter II. — THE GERMAN ELEMENT.
Chapter III. — FRIEDRICH WILHELM IS KING.
Chapter IV. — HIS MAJESTY'S WAYS.
Chapter V. — FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S ONE WAR.
Chapter VI. — THE LITTLE DRUMMER.
Chapter VII. — TRANSIT OF CZAR PETER.
Chapter VIII. — THE CROWN-PRINCE IS PUT TO HIS SCHOOLING.
Chapter IX. — WUSTERHAUSEN.
Chapter X. — THE HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS.
KARL PHILIP AND HIS HEIDELBERG PROTESTANTS.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S METHOD;—PROVES REMEDIAL IN HEIDELBERG.
PRUSSIAN MAJESTY HAS DISPLEASED THE KAISER AND THE KING OF POLAND.
Chapter XI. — ON THE CROWN-PRINCE'S PROGRESS IN HIS SCHOOLING.
Chapter XII. — CROWN-PRINCE FALLS INTO DISFAVOR WITH PAPA.
BOOK V. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND WHAT ELEMENT IT FELL INTO. — 1723-1726.
Chapter I. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE IS DECIDED ON.PRINCESS AMELIA COMES INTO THE WORLD.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S TEN CHILDREN.
Chapter II. — A KAISER HUNTING SHADOWS.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY HAS GOT HAPPILY WEDDED.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY AND THE TERMAGANT OF SPAIN.
IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S PRAGMATIC SANCTION.
THIRD SHADOW: IMPERIAL MAJESTY'S OSTEND COMPANY.
Chapter III. — THE SEVEN CRISES OR EUROPEAN TRAVAIL-THROES.
CONGRESS OF CAMBRAI GETS THE FLOOR PULLED FROM UNDER IT.
FRANCE AND THE BRITANNIC MAJESTY TRIM THE SHIP AGAIN: HOW FRIEDRICH WILHELM CAME INTO IT. TREATY OF HANOVER, 1725.
TRAVAIL-THROES OF NATURE FOR BABY CARLOS'S ITALIAN APANAGE; SEVEN IN NUMBER.
Chapter IV. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE TREATY CANNOT BE SIGNED.
Chapter V. — CROWN-PRINCE GOES INTO THE POTSDAM GUARDS.
FRIEDRICH WILHELM'S RECRUITING DIFFICULTIES.
QUEEN SOPHIE'S TROUBLES: GRUMKOW WITH THE OLD DESSAUER, AND GRUMKOW WITHOUT HIM.
Chapter VI. — ORDNANCE-MASTER SECKENDORF CROSSES THE PALACE ESPLANADE.
Chapter VII. — TOBACCO-PARLIAMENT.
Chapter VIII. — SECKENDORF'S RETORT TO HER MAJESTY.
BOOK VI. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT, AND CROWN-PRINCE, GOING ADRIFT UNDER THE STORM-WINDS. — 1727-1730.
Chapter I. — FIFTH CRISIS IN THE KAISER'S SPECTRE-HUNT.Chapter II. — DEATH OF GEORGE I.
Chapter III. — VISIT TO DRESDEN.
OF PRINCESS WHILHELMINA'S FOUR KINGS AND OTHER INEFFECTUAL SUITORS.
Chapter IV. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT IS NOT DEAD.
DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT RE-EMERGES IN AN OFFICIAL SHAPE.
HIS MAJESTY SLAUGHTERS 3,602 HEAD OF WILD SWINE.
FALLS ILL, IN CONSEQUENCE; AND THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE CANNOT GET FORWARD.
Chapter V. — CONGRESS OF SOISSONS, SIXTH CRISIS IN THE SPECTRE-HUNT.
Chapter VI. — IMMINENCY OF WAR OR DUEL BETWEEN THE BRITANNIC AND PRUSSIAN MAJESTIES.
CAUSE SECOND: THE TROUBLES OF MECKLENBURG.
CAUSES THIRD AND FOURTH:—AND CAUSE FIFTH, WORTH ALL THE OTHERS.
TROUBLES OF MECKLENBURG, FOR THE LAST TIME.
ONE NUSSLER SETTLES THE AHLDEN HERITAGES; SENDS THE MONEY HOME IN BOXES.
Chapter VII. — A MARRIAGE: NOT THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE: CROWN-PRINCE DEEP IN TROUBLE.
Chapter VIII. — CROWN-PRINCE GETTING BEYOND HIS DEPTH IN TROUBLE.
Chapter IX. — DOUBLE-MARRIAGE SHALL BE OR SHALL NOT BE.
DUBOURGAY STRIKES A LIGHT FOR THE ENGLISH COURT.
WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS SECOND: ENGLAND SHALL HAVE SAID NO.
WILHELMINA TO BE MARRIED OUT OF HAND. CRISIS THIRD: MAJESTY HIMSELF WILL CHOOSE, THEN.
HOW FRIEDRICH PRINCE OF BAIREUTH CAME TO BE THE MAN, AFTER ALL.
DOUBLE-MARRIAGE, ON THE EDGE OF SHIPWRECK, FLIES OFF A KIND OF CARRIER-PIGEON, OR NOAH'S-DOVE, TO ENGLAND, WITH CRY FOR HELP.
BOOK VII. — FEARFUL SHIPWRECK OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE PROJECT. — Feb.-Nov., 1730.
Chapter I. — ENGLAND SENDS THE EXCELLENCY HOTHAM TO BERLIN.HOW VILLA WAS RECEIVED IN ENGLAND.
EXCELLENCY HOTHAM ARRIVES IN BERLIN.
Chapter II. — LANGUAGE OF BIRDS: EXCELLENCY HOTHAM PROVES UNAVAILING.
THE HOTHAM DESPATCHES.
HIS MAJESTY GETS SIGHT OF THE ST.-MARY-AXE DOCUMENTS; BUT NOTHING FOLLOWS FROM IT.
ST. PETER'S CHURCH IN BERLIN HAS AN ACCIDENT.
Chapter III. — CAMP OF RADEWITZ.
Chapter IV. — EXCELLENCY HOTHAM QUITS BERLIN IN HASTE.
Chapter V. — JOURNEY TO THE REICH.
Chapter VI. — JOURNEY HOMEWARDS FROM THE REICH; CATASTROPHE ON JOURNEY HOMEWARDS.
Chapter VII. — CATASTROPHE, AND MAJESTY, ARRIVE IN BERLIN.
Chapter VIII. — SEQUEL TO CROWN-PRINCE AND FRIENDS.
Chapter IX. — COURT-MARTIAL ON CROWN-PRINCE AND CONSORTS.
SENTENCE OF COURT-MARTIAL.
KATTE'S END, 6th NOVEMBER, 1780.
BOOK VIII. — CROWN-PRINCE REPRIEVED: LIFE AT CUSTRIN — November, 1730-February, 1732.
Chapter I. — CHAPLAIN MULLER WAITS ON THE CROWN-PRINCE.Chapter II. — CROWN-PRINCE TO REPENT AND NOT PERISH.
Chapter III. — WILHELMINA IS TO WED THE PRINCE OF BAIREUTH.
Chapter IV. — CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN PREUSSEN AND ELSEWHERE.
CASE OF THE CRIMINAL-COLLEGIUM ITSELF.
SKIPPER JENKINS IN THE GULF OF FLORIDA.
BABY CARLOS GETS HIS APANAGE.
Chapter V. — INTERVIEW OF MAJESTY AND CROWN-PRINCE AT CUSTRIN.
SCHULENBURG'S THREE LETTERS TO GRUMKOW, ON VISITS TO THE CROWN-PRINCE, DURING THE CUSTRIN TIME.
HIS MAJESTY'S BUILDING OPERATIONS.
Chapter VI. — WILHELMINA'S WEDDING.
BOOK IX. — LAST STAGE OF FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP: LIFE IN RUPPIN. — 1732-1736.
Chapter I. — PRINCESS ELIZABETH CHRISTINA OF BRUNSWICK-BEVERN.DUKE OF LORRAINE ARRIVES IN POTSDAM AND IN BERLIN.
BETROTHAL OF THE CROWN-PRINCE TO THE BRUNSWICK CHARMER, NIECE OF IMPERIAL MAJESTY, MONDAY EVENING, 10th MARCH, 1732.
Chapter II. — SMALL INCIDENTS AT RUPPIN.
Chapter III. — THE SALZBURGERS.
Chapter IV. — PRUSSIAN MAJESTY VISITS THE KAISER.
Chapter V. — GHOST OF THE DOUBLE-MARRIAGE RISES; TO NO PURPOSE.
Chapter VI. — KING AUGUST MEDITATING GREAT THINGS FOR POLAND.
Chapter VII. — CROWN-PRINCE'S MARRIAGE.
Chapter VIII. — KING AUGUST DIES; AND POLAND TAKES FIRE.
OF THE CANDIDATES; OF THE CONDITIONS. HOW THE ELECTION WENT.
POLAND ON FIRE; DANTZIG STANDS SIEGE.
Chapter IX. — KAISER'S SHADOW-HUNT HAS CAUGHT FIRE.
COURSE OF THE WAR, IN THE GERMAN PART OF IT.
CROWN-PRINCE'S VISIT TO BAIREUTH ON THE WAY HOME.
Chapter XI. — IN PAPA'S SICK-ROOM; PRUSSIAN INSPECTIONS: END OF WAR.
BOOK X. — AT REINSBERG. - 1736-1740.
Chapter I. — MANSION OF REINSBERG.Chapter II. — OF VOLTAIRE AND THE LITERARY CORRESPONDENCES.
Chapter III. — CROWN-PRINCE MAKES A MORNING CALL.
Chapter IV. — NEWS OF THE DAY.
Chapter V. — VISIT AT LOO.
SECKENDORF GETS LODGED IN GRATZ.
THE EAR OF JENKINS RE-EMERGES.
Chapter VI. — LAST YEAR OF REINSBERG; JOURNEY TO PREUSSEN.
FRIEDRICH IN PREUSSEN AGAIN; AT THE STUD OF TRAKEHNEN. A TRAGICALLY GREAT EVENT COMING ON.
Chapter VII. — LAST YEAR OF REINSBERG: TRANSIT OF BALTIMORE AND OTHER PERSONS AND THINGS.
TURK WAR ENDS; SPANISH WAR BEGINS. A WEDDING IN PETERSBURG.
Chapter VIII. — DEATH OF FRIEDRICH WILHELM.
BOOK XI. — FRIEDRICH TAKES THE REINS IN HAND. — June-December, 1740.
Chapter I. — PHENOMENA OF FRIEDRICH'S ACCESSION.ABOLITION OF LEGAL TORTURE.
WILL HAVE PHILOSOPHERS ABOUT HIM, AND A REAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.
AND EVERY ONE SHALL GET TO HEAVEN IN HIS OWN WAY.
FREE PRESS, AND NEWSPAPERS THE BEST INSTRUCTORS.
INTENDS TO BE PRACTICAL WITHAL, AND EVERY INCH A KING.
BEHAVIOR TO HIS MOTHER; TO HIS WIFE.
NO CHANGE IN HIS FATHER'S METHODS OR MINISTRIES.
Chapter II. — THE HOMAGINGS.
Chapter III. — FRIEDRICH MAKES AN EXCURSION, NOT OF DIRECT SORT INTO THE CLEVE COUNTRIES.
FRIEDRICH FINDS M. DE MAUPERTUIS; NOT YET M. DE VOLTAIRE.
Chapter IV. — VOLTAIRE'S FIRST INTERVIEW WITH FRIEDRICH.
WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF THE INTERVIEW TWENTY YEARS AFTERWARDS.
WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF THE INTERVIEW AT THE TIME.
Chapter V. — AFFAIR OF HERSTAL.
FRIEDRICH TAKES THE ROD OUT OF PICKLE.
WHAT VOLTAIRE THOUGHT OF HERSTAL.
Chapter VI. — RETURNS BY HANOVER; DOES NOT CALL ON HIS ROYAL UNCLE THERE.
Chapter VII. — WITHDRAWS TO REINSBERG, HOPING A PEACEABLE WINTER.
UNEXPECTED NEWS AT REINSBERG.
Chapter VIII. — THE KAISER'S DEATH.
Chapter IX. — RESOLUTION FORMED AT REINSBERG IN CONSEQUENCE.
VIEW OF FRIEDRICH BEHIND THE VEIL.
EXCELLENCY BOTTA HAS AUDIENCE; THEN EXCELLENCY DICKENS, AND OTHERS: DECEMBER 6th, THE MYSTERY IS OUT.
MASKED BALL, AT BERLIN, 12th-13th DECEMBER.