Excerpt from History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, Vol. 8 of 10
Friedrich was very sensible of these procedures on the part of his Sto'ndo; and perhaps readers are not prepared for such, or for others of the like, which we could produce elsewhere, in a Country without Constitution to Speak of. Friedrich raises no new taxes, - except upon himself exclusively, and these to the very blood -friedrich gets no life-and-fortune Addresses of the vocal or printed sort, but only of the acted. Very much the preferable kind, where possible, to all parties concerned. These poor militias and flotillas one cheerfully puts on record; cheerfully nothing else, in regard to such a Swedish War nor shall we henceforth insult the human memory by another word upon it that is not indispensable.
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