“Ainsi mon seul asile en mon unique port
Se trouve, chère sœur, dans les bràs de la mort.”
[107] Correspondance Familière et Amicale, tome i., p. 31.
[108] “Heaven!” This was probably a slip of the pen. Frederick would have been perplexed to explain who or what he meant by “Heaven.” It would, however, subsequently appear that he used the word as synonymous with fate or destiny.
[109] The atheistic pen of Frederick will sometimes slip.
[110] Memoires pour servir à la Vie de M. De Voltaire.
[111] Carlyle, vol. v., p. 168.
[112] Archenholtz, vol. i., p. 209.
“Gieb dass ich thu’ mit Fleiss was mir zu thun gebühret,
Wozu mich dein Befehl in meinem Stande führet,
Gieb dass ich’s thue bald, zu der Zeit da ich’s soll;
Und wenn ich’s thu’, so gieb dass es gerathe wohl.”
[114] “Indeed, there is in him, in those grim days, a tone as of trust in the Eternal, as of real religious piety and faith, scarcely noticeable elsewhere in his history. His religion, and he had, in withered forms, a good deal of it, if we will look well, being almost always in a strictly voiceless state—nay, ultra voiceless, or voiced the wrong way, as is too well known!”—Carlyle.