History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 16
History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 16
By Thomas Carlyle
BOOK XVI.
THE TEN YEARS OF PEACE.
1746-1756.
Chapter I.
SANS-SOUCI.
Friedrich has now climbed the heights, and sees himself on the upper table-land of Victory and Success; his desperate life-and- death struggles triumphantly ended. What may be ahead, nobody knows; but here is fair outlook t ...