History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 6
History of Friedrich II of Prussia V 6
by Thomas Carlyle
Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia"
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.
The Crown-Prince's young Life being, by perverse chance, involved and as it were absorbed in that foolish question of his English Marriage, we have nothing for it but to continue our sad functio ...