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Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 31 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 65292 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 75 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25 King 21 Friedrich 19 Majesty 18 Prince 18 England 18 Berlin 15 Kaiser 15 English 11 French 10 War 10 Karl 10 August 9 prussian 9 man 9 Wilhelm 9 General 8 Queen 8 Army 7 Wilhelmina 7 Royal 7 God 7 Father 6 thing 6 letter 6 Voltaire 6 Law 6 France 6 Duke 6 Dresden 6 Crown 5 year 5 world 5 life 5 history 5 Universe 5 Silesia 5 Seckendorf 5 Parliament 5 Nature 5 Heaven 5 Court 4 german 4 day 4 September 4 Prag 4 Herr 4 Henri 4 Hanover 4 Grumkow 4 George Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 7681 man 3916 time 3665 day 3605 thing 2799 year 2725 world 2629 way 2256 nothing 1744 life 1721 part 1488 hand 1430 kind 1366 heart 1360 place 1341 fact 1335 manner 1316 reader 1209 work 1170 side 1164 one 1150 eye 1128 word 1119 soul 1094 people 1083 matter 1058 country 1003 other 945 friend 932 point 918 mile 916 head 901 hour 889 king 885 business 881 night 873 nature 872 mind 854 something 834 end 818 death 800 name 787 month 778 order 752 fire 748 case 746 horse 744 course 712 history 689 person 682 letter Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 13860 _ 5539 Friedrich 2930 King 2578 Majesty 2005 Prince 1212 Berlin 1199 Kaiser 1075 God 1069 England 1040 Voltaire 987 de 918 Wilhelm 862 English 824 Daun 797 Army 794 Karl 792 thou 787 French 728 i. 715 General 713 War 687 ii 657 August 655 Heaven 650 Duke 559 Father 556 France 555 Wilhelmina 548 Prussia 532 c. 526 George 522 Crown 517 Queen 500 Court 490 Royal 475 Nature 468 von 455 Country 446 Prussian 429 Town 428 OEuvres 422 Parliament 422 Austria 409 Austrians 400 Silesia 396 Man 394 September 392 Universe 390 Brandenburg 386 Princess Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 22578 it 15029 he 10220 i 9132 him 8264 we 6375 you 5622 they 4995 them 3888 us 3079 me 2967 himself 1952 itself 1354 she 808 her 777 themselves 695 one 401 myself 261 thee 240 herself 227 ourselves 173 his 150 yourself 125 ours 115 ib 84 theirs 68 mine 67 thyself 65 yours 37 oneself 21 hers 10 na 9 yourselves 9 ye 6 thy 5 ii 4 thou 4 je 2 whereof 2 trodden 2 through.--curious 2 them,--you 2 she.--"you 2 dropt?--at 2 ce 2 at;--with 1 you?--no 1 you!--we 1 york,--our 1 wrote;--of 1 worker;--you Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 68453 be 26279 have 9751 do 5730 say 4055 come 4050 get 3885 go 3799 see 3591 make 3126 know 3033 take 2575 give 2328 find 2276 think 2154 call 1667 look 1572 leave 1547 become 1475 lie 1332 speak 1330 hear 1298 stand 1292 write 1291 let 1236 seem 1136 fall 1057 keep 1045 live 956 bring 943 follow 927 die 925 send 901 try 797 begin 791 answer 767 believe 763 set 757 rise 723 continue 722 grow 719 put 716 turn 704 read 674 mean 661 tell 649 sit 649 appear 644 hope 616 bear 604 hold Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 17619 not 5422 so 5251 now 4326 more 3916 there 3834 very 3660 other 3542 much 3414 well 3180 here 3125 such 3053 only 2985 great 2973 still 2944 good 2941 little 2859 too 2699 then 2697 out 2659 old 2638 again 2577 poor 2334 own 2309 first 2251 even 2156 up 2148 long 2009 most 1989 many 1976 ever 1876 never 1876 last 1825 high 1758 new 1722 perhaps 1720 once 1718 far 1668 enough 1610 all 1528 yet 1454 as 1386 also 1375 always 1372 indeed 1353 young 1288 down 1274 certain 1271 true 1237 rather 1172 same Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 977 least 664 good 572 most 385 high 193 bad 189 great 112 eld 99 Most 94 low 82 small 72 wise 58 noble 58 deep 56 fine 56 early 55 late 48 near 42 old 40 young 37 strong 36 big 33 fit 32 strange 31 mean 30 manif 30 large 29 true 29 grand 26 bright 25 rich 24 swift 23 poor 22 lively 21 brave 20 likeli 20 faint 19 simple 19 common 18 slight 18 short 18 happy 18 fair 18 dear 17 hot 17 clear 15 sad 15 rude 15 loud 15 hard 14 soft Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1437 most 61 least 49 well 14 worst 9 highest 5 soon 5 hard 4 goethe 3 near 2 truest 2 topmost 2 tempest 2 strongest 2 oftenest 2 innermost 2 hero,--the 2 flattest 2 feelest 2 eldest 2 deepest 1 youngest 1 wisest 1 weakest 1 times,--first 1 supremest 1 stoutest 1 skilfulest 1 siege,"--world 1 sharpest 1 seemed;--not 1 said:-- 1 needest 1 meanest 1 maddest 1 loudest 1 long 1 likeliest 1 l''est 1 job''s 1 highness,"--heartily 1 happiest,--as 1 furst 1 easternmost 1 deadest 1 cruellest 1 camp,--not 1 army,--were 1 appealest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www.archive.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.archive.org/details/lifeofrobertburn00carl Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 48 _ is _ 33 one knows not 32 _ was _ 22 _ has _ 21 _ be _ 21 _ do _ 20 _ are _ 19 friedrich did not 15 _ had _ 14 _ is not 13 man is not 12 friedrich was not 11 _ see _ 11 _ speak _ 11 friedrich does not 10 friedrich is not 9 friedrich is now 9 majesty is not 9 things are not 8 _ saw _ 8 one does not 8 one is not 7 _ being _ 7 _ know _ 7 _ seeing _ 7 _ were _ 7 world is not 7 world was not 6 _ done _ 6 _ think _ 6 _ was not 6 friedrich had not 6 king did not 6 majesty has not 5 _ did _ 5 _ have _ 5 friedrich is still 5 friedrich was very 5 majesty did not 5 man has ever 5 one is sorry 5 one knew not 5 one sees not 5 thing is certain 5 world is full 4 _ are not 4 _ called _ 4 _ is still 4 _ seen _ 4 _ sees _ Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 friedrich does not yet 2 _ am not thine 2 _ did not at 2 _ is not destruction 2 _ is not novelty 2 _ was not then 2 _ was not uncholeric 2 majesty has no money 2 man is not only 2 man is not strong 2 men are no longer 2 men are not dissimilar 2 men find no such 2 men had not only 2 men were no longer 2 men were not far 2 reader is not utterly 2 souls are no longer 2 things are not pleasant 2 things went not so 2 words were not false 2 world is not mine 2 world knows not well 1 _ are not _ 1 _ are not god 1 _ had not as 1 _ is no bad 1 _ is not more 1 _ was not _ 1 berlin did not long 1 berlin has no tenants 1 berlin is no carnival 1 berlin is not singular 1 day is not beautiful 1 day is not well 1 eyes is no firm 1 eyes were not dry 1 eyes were not yet 1 fact had no success 1 fact is not altogether 1 fact is not so 1 fact is not such 1 fact is not yet 1 friedrich did no mischief 1 friedrich did not definitely 1 friedrich did not much 1 friedrich did not now 1 friedrich did not quite 1 friedrich did not yet 1 friedrich had no choice Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 182003 20585 126287 2118 120198 2121 111251 13534 108088 2120 89853 1091 89312 1085 88923 2116 84973 2119 82063 1051 74850 1140 74543 2115 74056 2112 60822 2113 57806 2109 55960 2114 54043 2103 50034 2111 47910 2107 44716 2110 41101 2104 39801 2106 38241 1932 37488 13435 37460 2117 36171 2102 32937 2105 31541 36074 23906 2108 18941 2101 8789 2122 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 95.0 2122 78.0 1091 77.0 2108 77.0 2107 76.0 2121 76.0 2120 76.0 2116 76.0 2119 76.0 2115 76.0 13534 75.0 2106 75.0 2113 75.0 2114 75.0 2109 75.0 2103 75.0 2111 75.0 2118 74.0 20585 74.0 2110 74.0 2102 74.0 2112 74.0 2117 73.0 13435 73.0 2104 72.0 1932 72.0 2105 71.0 2101 70.0 1085 69.0 1051 68.0 1140 67.0 36074 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 1051 The secrets of man''s Life were laid open to thee; thou sawest their New University, imagined they had done enough, if "in times like Of good society Teufelsdrockh appears to have seen little, or has mostly God-created Souls do for the time meet together." To Teufelsdrockh the into mysterious Nature, and the still more mysterious Life of Man. Wonderful it is with what cutting words, now and then, he severs asunder "Happy he who can look through the Clothes of a Man (the woollen, and "Thou wilt have no Mystery and Mysticism; wilt walk through thy world We have long felt that, with a man like our Professor, matters must by this means we live; for man must work as well as wonder: and herein Space and Time to their due rank as Forms of Thought; nay even, if thou men, looking and longing and silently working there towards some new 1085 John Sterling''s character and writings, which had little Edward Sterling his Father, a man who subsequently came to considerable change introduced itself into Edward Sterling''s way of life. operations, it need not be said, John Sterling was his foremost man; strange new way of life: by all means let us go and try!--Arrangements It is evident, Sterling''s thoughts had already, since the old days of The hope of perhaps, one day, knowing Sterling, was welcome books got planted in their new places, friends could find Sterling, as heaviest-laden years can poor Sterling be said to have completely lived. seen,--"like Fenelon," Sterling said: his very face, with its kind true If Sterling has done little in Literature, we may ask, What other man other, thinking of old Edward Sterling now left alone in the world; and John Sterling and his Life in this world were--such as has been already 1091 world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. such) which in all times unites a Great Man to other men; and thus, as others); the thing a man does practically lay to heart, and know for great extent what the man is, what the kind of things he will do is. The great man, with his free force direct out of God''s own hand, is such as men only feel;--till the great Thinker came, the _original_ man, wild beard and eyes, his rude Norse speech and ways, was a man like us; Universe, and man''s Life here, and utter a great word about it. is competent to all men that God has made: but a Great Man cannot be great heart, the clear deep-seeing eye: there it lies; no man whatever, The man whom Nature has appointed to do great things is, 1140 rule for human things, there will not anywhere be want of work for the In times when men love wisdom, the old man will New Era, and long-expected Year One of Perfect Human Felicity has one thing requisite, That the man or nation can discern what the true What great human soul, what great thought, what great noble thing that England must herself again, in these new strange times, the old methods this world, and one wise man is stronger than all men unwise, they can Scoundrel, him whom of all men the gods liked worst, solemnly laid hold this, human pity shall fall silent, and man be stern as his Master and in Downing Street, governing us, are not abler men since the Reform now has the honor to"--Good Heavens, if it were not that men generally human creatures; and from the Nature''s Fact, continuing quite silently 13435 best thing he knew of that country was, that in it a man can have meat individuals, especially one man of letters, his friend, the best mind infinite voices an eternal song of Hope in the soul of man.'' Carlyle Carlyle''s works, and indeed is one of the most remarkable books of the A great deal of information respecting Carlyle''s manner of living and Carlyle''s paper reads like a solemn and touching funeral oration to time when, an unknown young man, Thomas Carlyle wrote articles for conclusion, and it is to be regretted that the admiration which Mr. Carlyle feels for the great men of history will not allow him to at times to appoint a Dictator--a man who had the power of life and thing to what it was in these old times, I could go into a great many of sceptical men had not anything like so clear a mind as that man 13534 this God''s Earth; do more things and human faces look with days, dwells and speaks a God. The great soul of the world is man has vision for the essential God''s-Truth of the things earthly arena where painful living men worked out their lifewrestle,--looked at by Earth, by Heaven and Hell. _un_governed; of the Devil, not of God. A man of this kind Literature, without copyright, or world-celebrity of literarygazettes,--yes, thou brave Abbot Samson, for thyself it had been Samson all along a busy working man, as all men are bound to be, Yes, the wise man too speaks, and acts, in Formulas; all men do grow; no Poet, no work from the inspired heart of a Man needed ascertain if no work exist for thee on God''s Earth; if thou find Good man and a Bad. The Great soul of the World, just and not 1932 proprietors) thought, King Hakon, when thou heldest thy first Thing-day collar round the neck of him, not the like of it in Norway,--King Olaf his Christian proposals; and they did not think King Olaf a higher man brief, after about a year, Thangbrand returned to Norway and king Olaf; onslaughts of King Olaf''s on the idol temples of Hakon--(I think it At the time of Olaf Tryggveson''s death, and indeed long before, King Jarl Hakon accepted the generous terms; went to England and King Knut, populace of Norway to seize King Olaf, and bring him to the great Knut The news from Norway were naturally agitating to King Olaf and, in the St. Olaf is the highest of these Norway Kings, and is the last that much natural son of King Olaf but that made little difference in those times this year King Olaf was slain in Norway by his own people, and was 20585 world; at worst as a spectre-fighting Man, nay who will one day be a ''True is it that, in these days, man can do almost all things, only world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here. epochs of the world''s history, we shall find the Great Man to have the history of an epoch is the manner it has of welcoming a Great Man. Ever, to the true instincts of men, there is something godlike in him. transacted in this world, the Life and Death of the Divine Man in world believes it; there is one man against all men. things and men, a good man. once more was a man found who durst tell all men that God''s world does now find a man who knows, as of old, that this world is a Truth, Nay I cannot believe the like, of any Great Man 2101 interesting lean little old man, of alert though slightly stooping little by men and kings, and may silently have didactic meanings in it. Friedrich, if he was a true man and King, justly excite some curiosity no good Book can, at this time, especially in this country, be written The poor old Grandfather, Friedrich I. Good old man: he, we need not doubt, Father of this little infant who will one day be Friedrich II., did all accounts, a really pretty little child, whom he liked a great deal at Hanover twenty years ago, she is mother of the little Boy now born that he might see the world a little, for the first time. days, while our little Friedrich at Berlin lies in his cradle, sleeping Friedrich, the old Gentleman who now looks upon his little Grandson He was son of him they call the Great Elector, Friedrich Prince Friedrich brought his Sophie 2102 Kaiser Otto, Wonder of the World, who had known St. Adalbert in life, pious Countess (year 1077, Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire waiting, of Nurnberg, Son of that Friedrich III., Kaiser Rudolf''s HENRY''S SON JOHANN IS KING OF BOHEMIA; AND LUDWIG THE BAVARIAN, WITH A Kaiser Ludwig reigned some twenty-five years more, in a busy and even Young Ludwig Kurfurst of Brandenburg, Kaiser Ludwig''s eldest son, having the Reich being in much internal battle at the time; poor Kaiser Ludwig, him;--all the worse when the PFAFFEN-KAISER (King Johann''s son) came -BRANDENBURG IN KAISER KARL''S TIME; END OF THE BAVARIAN poor Kurfurst Ludwig, the late Kaiser''s son, by no means a lover of his Electorate and big Mark of Brandenburg to Kaiser Karl for an old of Brandenburg; [1373 (born 1361).] Wenzel shall be Kaiser and King of In five years'' time he died; [King of Bohemia, 1346, on his 2103 too: very great with the Kaiser, Old Friedrich III. Kurfurst Albert Achilles''s second son, Friedrich (1460-1536), [Rentsch, that poor men might be governed by a wise good Duke, in the time coming. riper years, George Friedrich got his calamities brought well under; and end, the Law had to be allowed its course; George Friedrich got his own the daughter of Albert Friedrich, Second Duke of Preussen, who it was Duke Albert died in 1568, laden with years, and in his latter time the real Government of the Country; and poor young Albert Friedrich It is to him that Albert Friedrich, the young Duke of Preussen, of business,--George Friedrich of Anspach-Baireuth came into the country Kurfurst Joachim Friedrich, sons of Johann George of blessed memory: his own sons, a new Johann George, who at that time was fallen rather A year before Johann Sigismund''s death, Albert Friedrich, the poor 2104 handling it, and Books on Friedrich Wilhelm''s Court and History, of an old date, in a very appropriate manner,--had Crown-Prince Friedrich German sons of Nature; differing much from the French sons of Art. Baron Grumkow, Leopold Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (not yet called the "OLD busy generations; and this of Friedrich Wilhelm is grown almost dumb. on Friedrich Wilhelm); and for long years that paltry matter was Friedrich Wilhelm, in his Crown-Prince days, and now still more when Friedrich Wilhelm, while yet only Crown-Prince, had seen with natural Friedrich Wilhelm had a true personal regard for Charles XII., a man sound, we hope; little more than three years old at this time, and French journey, paid Friedrich Wilhelm a visit; and passed four days at Friedrich Wilhelm and the Czar, like in several points, though so its ways again; Friedrich Wilhelm convoying "as far as Potsdam;" Czar Friedrich Wilhelm himself on the like occasion. 2105 to be English; little Fred, who will one day, if all go right, be King there is none to help; Friedrich Wilhelm cares little about the matter, Upon which Friedrich Wilhelm and Queen Sophie have returned Kaiser Karl, soon after the time of going to Spain had decided that a war with the Kaiser, advised Friedrich Wilhelm to assert his rights 153.] Certain it is, Friedrich Wilhelm signed: a man with such Balances by help of Friedrich Wilhelm, one might have hoped this little instance, in which the Crown-Prince now is,--Friedrich Wilhelm got it years, will stick to Friedrich Wilhelm like his shadow; and fascinate (since he could not be got hanged in time for us), good days to his poor to Berlin in old King Friedrich''s time; had thrown powder in the eyes of comparison!--Our poor Friedrich Wilhelm had seen only Gundlings among a Husband; Friedrich Wilhelm was a King; and the most imperative man 2106 gallant Polish Majesty;--Wilhelmina had spoken a word to good Suhm, who The Crown-Prince lodged with Fieldmarshal Flemming; Friedrich Wilhelm, having come in no state, refused King August''s pressings, and took up Great pledges pass between the two Kings; Prussian Crown-Prince CROWN-PRINCE FRIEDRICH WRITES CERTAIN LETTERS. head was TheirO Majesty the Queen, sometimes with the King''s hand laid good-humor with Queen, with Crown-Prince and Wilhelmina. sitting round his Majesty, in the way we know; Queen Sophie at his head, with Crown-Prince Friedrich and Wilhelmina, in her Majesty''s Apartment "The King will not suffer the Prince-Royal to sit next his Majesty Friedrich Wilhelm''s favor for the Crown-Prince, marching home so Friedrich Wilhelm means to see the Polish Majesty Crown-Prince too shall write to his Aunt of England: you, Wilhelmina, she is better, your Majesty!"--"Hmph!" thinks Friedrich Wilhelm out at Now, in old King Friedrich I.''s time, it became apparent, as the Old King Friedrich thereupon said, 2107 MAJESTY AND CROWN-PRINCE WITH HIM MAKE A RUN TO DRESDEN be a Crown-Prince Party, capable of extinguishing your Majesty here ici_): but Reichenbach will tell his Prussian Majesty what Grumkow finds readers some time ago, ''That the Prince-Royal of Prussia has given his Royal Family here; Prussian Majesty having ordered him not to write Monday 29th May, 1730, Friedrich Wilhelm and the Crown-Prince and Party and Prussian Majesties: in jolly hours, things go very high there. Crown-Prince Friedrich, doubtless, looking at this flower-bed of human Friedrich Wilhelm stood till the finale; Saxon Crown-Prince and he, Majesties and two Crown-Princes rode through the ranks, as dinner went A busy week for the Crown-Prince and Katte, this of the Hotham Majesty and Crown-Prince must be an event like few, in that stagnant Crown-Prince Friedrich is said to have privately asked the young and throat: Letter from the Crown-Prince to Lieutenant Katte in Berlin: 2108 -CROWN-PRINCE REPRIEVED: LIFE AT CUSTRIN -November, Crown-Prince Friedrich being settled so far, his Majesty takes up the in it, old real friends and pretended new; which set poor Wilhelmina Wilhelmina''s history; Queen commanding one thing, King another, and the they: her Majesty, for certain, will reconcile herself; Crown-Prince get to her in old times: "He is a Prince, that Frederick, who has a good at Pillau, General Finkenstein (excellent old Tutor of the Crown-Prince) Crown-Prince has, long since, by Papa''s order, written to the Kaiser, -INTERVIEW OF MAJESTY AND CROWN-PRINCE AT CUSTRIN. Ever since the end of November last year, Crown-Prince Friedrich, in "The Crown-Prince followed his Majesty out; and, in the presence of many CUSTRIN, 22d SEPTEMBER (Crown-Prince to Papa).... SCHULENBURG''S THREE LETTERS TO GRUMKOW, ON VISITS TO THE CROWN-PRINCE, Crown-Prince said: ''I should like to know what thalers to the old Margraf, in case his Prince (Wilhelmina''s now 2109 WHO HIS MAJESTY''S CHOICE IS; AND WHAT THE CROWN-PRINCE THINKS OF IT. Prussian Majesty, Queen and Crown-Prince with him, proceeds Ruppin; and the Crown-Prince had like to have got into trouble from "When King Friedrich, in his old days, recounted this after dinner, in Germany--in these very days while the Crown-Prince is at Berlin time; for which the then Crown-Prince, now Majesty Friedrich Wilhelm, Crown-Prince betrothed according to his Majesty''s and the Kaiser''s (not The great King Friedrich, now Crown-Prince at Ruppin, writing of this Friedrich Wilhelm and our Crown-Prince came to be concerned in the Rhine Crown-Prince Friedrich and a select party escorted his Majesty to Mainz, "A Crown-Prince, who may be King one of these days,--whom a little old in Berlin) told us, there was Dinner by the Crown-Prince to all the in Berlin: but Friedrich Wilhelm treated him like a real Majesty, almost 2110 from the Prince, that Reinsberg, an old Country-seat, standing with happiest time was this at Reinsberg; the little Four Years of Hope, The little Town is very old; but, till the Crown-Prince settled there, glass-manufactories: Friedrich Wilhelm, just while the Crown-Prince size, the late King and Queen [our good friends Friedrich Wilhelm and from Papa, Friedrich is left master of his time and pursuits in this new Friedrich''s taste is for the Literatures, Philosophies: a--young Prince at that time; and the young Prince corresponds with a good many of them; if you are interested that way in either Friedrich or Voltaire: finely TO THE CROWN-PRINCE, AT REINSBERG (from Voltaire). them up a little!" Which Friedrich, I think, did, by some good means. readers) the Crown-Prince and Voltaire had their first meeting, "The Crown-Prince, reading this bad Book of Machiavel''s, years ago, had the Crown-Prince, figure the poor sick Majesty; and what a time in those 2111 In Berlin, from Tuesday, 31st May, 1740, day of the late King''s death, a good deal.--On the whole, Friedrich will go his way, Time and the Old Friedrich, first of the name, and of the King series, we King Friedrich did not quite keep his day at Wesel; indeed this 24th was Intrinsically the Friedrich correspondence at this time, with Voltaire Friedrich and Voltaire,--has a certain amiability; and is nothing like KING FRIEDRICH TO VOLTAIRE (from Wesel, 2d September, 1740), CHIEFLY IN Enough, Friedrich got to Wesel, back to his business, in a day or two; King Friedrich is not the man to wield such Quite other work is in store for King Friedrich; and Nature will very day Voltaire and his Majesty had parted, going different ways from I believe Friedrich little knows the thick-coming difficulties of Podewils and Schwerin gone, King Friedrich, though still very busy in 2112 (the very day Friedrich left Berlin), as this matter of the Garrison, serves in Russia, Governor of Riga for a long time in the coming years. to the world''s end, Friedrich has on hand: probably those six days, of King had ridden away, a second time, with chief Generals, taking survey got orders from his Majesty to go their ways next day; and went. considerable little Town and Castle on the Neisse River, not far west of In the first days of March, Friedrich has heard appointed it by just Heaven; and Friedrich''s too was a necessary War. Heaven makes use of Shadow-hunting Kaisers too; and its ways in this mad inform us, That General Neipperg arrived to-day with his Army in Neisse; Friedrich, if readers will know it) is there the least thought that way; Friedrich thinks highly, and about this time often says so, of the man 2113 the road for Friedrich''s Camp; Robinson at Vienna, has been directed to AND FRIEDRICH MAKES A MOST IMPORTANT TREATY,--NOT WITH HYNDFORD. time, to make Sweden declare war on Russia (important for Friedrich, who old Ginkel whom we used to know in Friedrich Wilhelm''s time], having, Answer withal: A FRENCH Treaty signed three days ago, in virtue of it! EXCELLENCY ROBINSON HAS AUDIENCE OF FRIEDRICH (Camp of Strehlen, 7th proposal, to the general population, of "a cheer for King Friedrich, of Breslau gone heels over head, in that way; Friedrich imperiously in the very days while Friedrich and Neipperg had got into wrestle mere Dukes till then; having got for himself the poor Winter-King''s with at Prag, in old Friedrich-Wilhelm and Prince-Eugene times:-The Second little Prince, Friedrich Eugen, Prussian General of some a Captain like Friedrich might have gone far; Vienna itself--who Friedrich''s look, when Valori met him again coming home from this 2114 FRIEDRICH TAKES THE WATERS AT AACHEN, WHERE VOLTAIRE COMES TO SEE HIM. More affecting to Friedrich were the natural terrors of the poor Kaiser WAR-PHENOMENA IN THE WESTERN PARTS: KING GEORGE TRIES, A SECOND TIME, TO ''Poor man, he was born for surprises'' [said Friedrich''s King Friedrich had come to the Baths of Aachen, August 25th; the Friedrich, on the day while Voltaire at Brussels sat so busy writing of his Britannic Majesty,--the poor Kaiser, in the rear of those late Experienced old Marechal de Noailles has a new French Army, with Khevenhuller and Prince Karl: ''Will lie quiet as mere REICHS-Army, the Pragmatic Army till his Britannic Majesty arrive. poor Reich took no notice, and the Britannic Majesty was positive, your Majesty!"--and I think it was, in fact, about the time when Broglio this was "Friedrich''s real end in going to War again," was at one time 2115 those old times, That Friedrich has no ''constancy,'' but follows his Belleisle, whose war-talent Friedrich much respected at this time: plan Friedrich made no delay in Prag; in haste at this late time of year. Prince Friedrich [Britannic Majesty''s Son-in-law], not good fat Uncle FRIEDRICH TRIES TO HAVE BATTLE FROM PRINCE KARL, IN THE MOLDAU day, Friedrich and his chief generals are on the heights with their everything whitherward it liked;--and King Friedrich got into such a KING FRIEDRICH TO PODEWILS, IN BERLIN (under various dates, March-April, Friedrich had left Berlin for Silesia March 15th; rather sooner than he inexpugnably defends himself,--till General Stille, Friedrich''s old reporting from Prince Karl''s quarters, Friedrich has at this time Prince Karl''s scheme was good, says Friedrich; but it was ill executed. Prince Karl dreams not that Friedrich is on the for two days!" say the Saxons,--"Prince Karl had then been up, and much 2116 King Friedrich, let me note farther, is getting decidedly deep into any human head form to itself of Friedrich as King or Man? the King; as every poor man can, at certain hours of the day. June, 1750;" Friedrich to Voltaire, "Potsdam, 24th May" (--OEuvres de Paris Newspapers; D''Arnaud has" [Voltaire to Friedrich (--OEuvres de On New-Year''s day, Friday, 1st January, 1751, Voltaire had legally Voltaire''s Letters to Friedrich, if he wrote any, in this Jew time, 1. KING FRIEDRICH TO VOLTAIRE AT BERLIN. Friedrich himself Voltaire has, with touches of real love coming out Most true, "those actual Voltaire-Friedrich LETTERS of the time are Friedrich, readers know by this time, had a great appetite for Friedrich''s Answers to these Voltaire Letters, if he wrote any, are all (New-year''s-day 1753), Voltaire sends, in a Packet to the Palace, his of time did come, and right were done his poor people, he, Friedrich 2117 Austrian-Russian as well as Saxon; going on steadily for years past, and Austrians, and thinks the Prussian Army a considerable Fact in Politics, (same neighborhood, north of Elbe); King Friedrich, to Dresden, by the At Wilsdruf, Friedrich first learns for certain, that the Saxon Army, Meanwhile Friedrich pushes on: "Forward, all the same." Polish Majesty, Friedrich''s answer; this at first, and for some time coming; though, as Chapter V.--FRIEDRICH BLOCKADES THE SAXONS IN PIRNA COUNTRY. Saxon-Polish Majesty, sets out from Dresden for an interview with said Saxony shall be even a Highway for Friedrich, if at any time Polish night, the march proceeds again; Friedrich with the vanguard; Army, I The Country-roads where Friedrich''s Army is on march, I should think, Friedrich''s Left Wing and Browne''s Right now have it Friedrich orders the second line of his Left Wing to march up and join Friedrich''s treatment of the Saxon Troops, Saxon Majesty and Country: 2118 Up so far as Lissoley, the first day, Friedrich has found no fit place; heads; and till even Daun come up, what hurry in a Post like this? the part of General Mannstein, our old Russian friend; which Friedrich, By break of day Friedrich starts, having cleared off certain Pandour Friedrich has marched, Daun''s left wing may be four miles distant. pomp, that day while Friedrich gathered his Siege-goods and got on all survived this War. The poor Prince''s fate, as natural, was much pitied; and Friedrich, to left, sure enough; meaning to attack us there:" the thing Friedrich had Friedrich''s,--"Prince Ferdinand at one time pointed his cannon on cannot get in my Out-Parties in time!"--and next day, here is Friedrich till he has fairly got to the flank of Hochkirch and Friedrich: Daun to third or second day of Friedrich''s march,--General Treskow, Commandant November 20th, Friedrich arrived in Dresden; heard, next day, that Daun 2119 Friedrich''s being put to Ban of the Reich,--he; and his poor People know a fever in the New-year time; and died within few days: burnt away Long days sat Daun, expecting the King in Bohemia:--"There At what exact point of time Daun came to see that Friedrich was not Rapid Friedrich is obliged to wait; watching Daun and the Dohna-Russian days more; by which time Soltikof and most of the Russian Divisions had Friedrich got the news of Zullichau next day, July 24th;--and instantly Frankfurt: "Follow them, you Wedell,"--orders Friedrich: them we shall Friedrich, on survey of this Russian-Austrian Army, some 90,000 in come!" thought the Russians, always till to-day]: on the north, to is the scene of action; Friedrich, Henri, Soltikof, Daun, comparatively Daun and him: of which, when we come to Henri''s great March (of 25th This day,--let readers mark the circumstance,--Friedrich, in better 2120 Friedrich''s task, this Year, is to defend Saxony; Prince Henri having troops--is Daun''s road open, were he enterprising, as Friedrich hopes Daun very early got to know of Friedrich''s departure, and whitherward; also, on news of Daun that come, Friedrich rests. Friedrich, that night, is beyond the River, in Daun''s old impregnability Breslau, and this day Loudon himself;--though Friedrich heard nothing, us are in are like to turn my head, three or four times a day." Loudon confront Tartarus itself, and be victorious over the Three-headed Dog. Daun, Lacy, Loudon coming on you simultaneously, open-mouthed, are a loss of Glatz (July 26th), Friedrich has no news of Loudon; supposes FRIEDRICH ON MARCH, FOR THE THIRD TIME, TO RESCUE SILESIA (August Friedrich, nothing of attack having come, got on march again: down From about 8 in the evening, Friedrich''s people got on march, in their Hearing that Friedrich was across, Daun came westward that same day 2121 Friedrich the Second for King over it, was Prussia''s grand merit. time, an agreeable, estimable little man to Friedrich. It is certain, also, King Friedrich, at this time, found no sound whatever about this New Palace of King Friedrich''s, except the The poor old King of Poland--whom we saw, on that fall of the curtain King is dead [died this very day; see if _I_ lose time in sentimental time "declared War" on King Friedrich; and was picked up, both War and great respect; like that of a young Prince to an aged King, and of a "I saw him a few nights ago [on or about New-year''s Day, 1771; come Russians make War?" said Kaunitz''s Ambassador, one day, to Friedrich. Prince Henri, junior Brother of the subsequent King, Friedrich Wilhelm This was May 21st, 1785; I think, the last time Berlin saw its King in 2122 carriage, General von Gortz along with him, and horses from his own GOTT WEISS!" In Dechau his Majesty got sight of Rittmeister von "''Yes, your Majesty; there to the right, that is it.'' It BELONGS to "''Your Majesty, the Rittmeister von Lestock lies in my village on "''Your Majesty, the Herr General von Ziethen is [are, SIND] also "Now his Majesty went back to General von Ziethen and Herr von Kleist, "''Ja, your Majesty, it is very good that the tenant have money; but Please your Majesty to ask the Herr General Presently his Majesty called to me from the carriage, ''Na, stand by the "His Majesty must lately have asked the Herr General von Gortz, how I came to know him,--as I told his Majesty to ask General von Gortz about "''Don''t know that, your Majesty; as it happens.'' that when his Majesty got upon the hills I was there too. 36074 "The first time I saw Edward Irving," writes Mr. Carlyle in 1835, "was six-and-twenty years ago, in his native town, Annan. upon a young mind of intellectual ambition." The advice here given to Mr. Carlyle by his critic, was followed by him in so far that, in 1827, he a greater power over the minds of men, and the general system of life, uniformly treats Burns as the high and remarkable man the public voice has true Poet, a man in whose heart resides some effluence of Wisdom, some In this respect, Burns, though not perhaps absolutely a great poet, better popular in Burns''s time, were little distinguished for their literary It was little in Burns''s character to let his feelings on certain subjects True, Burns had little means, had even little time for poetry, A man like Burns might have divided his hours between poetry and virtuous