[173] Military Instructions, written by the King of Prussia, p. 176.
[174] Archenholtz, Histoire de la Guerre de Sept Ans.
[175] “Northern tourists, Wraxall and others, passing that way, speak of this princess down to recent times as a phenomenon of the place. Apparently a high and peremptory kind of lady, disdaining to be bowed too low by her disgraces. She survived all her generation, and the next and the next, and, indeed, into our own. Died 18th February, 1840, at the age of ninety-six.”—Carlyle.
[176] Œuvres de Frédéric, t. vi., p. 23.
[177] Œuvres Posthumes de D’Alembert, t. i., p. 197, cited by Carlyle, vol. vi., p. 283.
[178] Histoire ou Anecdotes sur la Révolution de Russie en l’année 1762, par M. Rulhière.
[179] Œuvres de Frédéric, t. vi., p. 26.
[180] Correspondance avec l’Electrice Marie-Antoine.
[181] Pezzl, Vie de Loudon, vol. ii., p. 29.
[182] “Kaunitz,” writes Frederick, “had a clear intellect, greatly twisted by perversities of temper, especially by a self-conceit and arrogance which were boundless. He did not talk, but preach. At the smallest interruption he would stop short in indignant surprise. It has happened that at the council-board in Schönbrunn, when her imperial majesty has asked some explanation of a word or thing not understood by her, Kaunitz made his bow and quitted the room.”