History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 14
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 Controver ...