Frederick the Great.

The Biographies contained in Ward and Lock’s Worthies of the World are those of men who, by general consent, are acknowledged to be the Great Men of the World—those who have influenced its history most, and whose lives, actions, and characters are of universal interest. No place has been given to the illustrious obscure.

Ward and Lock’s Worthies of the World deals with Men of Thought and Men of Action, with great Poets, Philosophers, Warriors, Statesmen, Orators, Divines, Explorers, Inventors—indeed, with all the colossal figures who have adorned the past; unforgotten and never-to-be-forgotten Worthies.

The various lives have been entrusted to writers well qualified to do them justice. They will be found filled with picturesque incident, and have in no case been overloaded with uninteresting details. The whole tone of the work is that of vivacity and interest.

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