“Nun danket alle Gott
Mit Herzen, Mund und Händen,
Der grosse Dinge thut,
An uns und allen Enden.”
[116] Vie de Frédéric II., Roi de Prusse, Strasbourg, 1788, t. ii., p. 317.
[117] Carlyle.
[118] The son of the late Prince of Prussia. He was now heir to the crown.
[119] Carlyle.
[120] London Magazine, vol. xxvii., p. 670.
[121] This confession of the king is worthy of notice. His philosophy afforded him no consolation in these hours of anguish. It is faith in Christ alone which can “take from death its sting, and from the grave its victory.”
[122] Correspondance de Voltaire avec le Roi de Prusse.
[123] Archenholtz, Histoire de la Guerre de Sept Ans.