HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II OF PRUSSIA, Volume 21

FREDERICK THE GREAT

by Thomas Carlyle


Contents

[ BOOK XXI.—AFTERNOON AND EVENING OF FRIEDRICH'S LIFE—1763-1786. ]
[ Chapter I.—PREFATORY. ]
[ Chapter II.—REPAIRING OF A RUINED PRUSSIA. ]

[ LANDRATH NUSSLER AND THE KING (30th March-3d April, 1763). ]
[ III. SATURDAY, APRIL 3d, IN THE SCHLOSS AGAIN: NUSSLER AND LANDRATHS. To them, the KING. ]
[ KRIEGSRATH RODEN AND THE KING (6th-13th June, 1763). ]
[ OF FRIEDRICH'S NEW EXCISE SYSTEM. ]
[ THE NEUE PALAIS, IN SANS-SOUCI NEIGHBORHOOD, IS FOUNDED AND FINISHED (1763-1770). ]
[ "OBITUARY IN FRIEDRICH'S CIRCLE TILL 1771." ]

[ KING OF POLAND DIES; AND THERE ENSUE HUGE ANARCHIES IN THAT COUNTRY. ]
[ EX-LOVER PONIATOWSKI BECOMES KING OF POLAND (7th Sept. 1764), AND IS CROWNED WITHOUT LOSS OF HIS HAIR. ]
[ FOR SEVERAL YEARS THE DISSIDENT QUESTION CANNOT BE GOT SETTLED; CONFEDERATION OF RADOM (23d June, 1767-5th March, 1768) PUSHES IT INTO SETTLEMENT. ]
[ CONFEDERATION OF BAR ENSUES, ON THE PER-CONTRA SIDE (March 28th, 1768); AND, AS FIRST RESULT OF ITS ACHIEVEMENTS (October 6th, 1768), A TURK-RUSSIAN WAR. ]