[144] Œuvres de Frédéric, t. xxii., p. 61.
[145] Voltaire’s niece, Madame Denis, was with him when he was arrested at Frankfort, and she was terribly frightened.
[146] Œuvres de Voltaire, t. lxxx., p. 313.
[147] Archenholtz, vol. ii., p. 53.
[148] “The symptoms we decipher in these letters, and otherwise, are those of a man drenched in misery; but used to his black element, unaffectedly defiant of it, or not at the pains to defy it; occupied only to do his very utmost in it, with or without success, till the end come.”—Carlyle.
[149] Annual Register, vol. iii., p. 209.
[150] Life of Frederick II., by Lord Dover, vol. ii., p. 152.
[151] The king had a coat torn from him by a rebounding cannon-ball, and a horse shot under him.
[152] Œuvres Posthumes de Frédéric II.
[153] “No human intellect in our day could busy itself with understanding these thousandfold marchings, manœuvrings, assaults, surprisals, sudden facings about (retreat changed to advance); nor could the powerfulest human memory, not exclusively devoted to study the art military under Frederick, remember them when understood.”—Carlyle, vol. vi., p. 59.