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Klappentext The sixteenth volume of the Centenary Edition of Carlyle's collected works, first published in 1896. Zusammenfassung Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was one of the most influential authors of the nineteenth century. His introduction of German literature and philosophy into Victorian society profoundly influenced later ideas. Volume 16 of this 1896 edition of his collected works contains the fifth volume of The Life of Frederick the Great. Inhaltsverzeichnis Book XV. Second Silesian War, Important Episode in the General European One, 1744-1745; 1. Preliminary: how the moment arrived; 2. Friedrich marches upon Prag, captures Prag; 3. Friedrich, diligent in his Bohemian conquests, unexpectedly comes upon Prince Karl, with no French attending him; 4. Friedrich reduced to Straits; cannot maintain his Moldau conquests against Prince Karl; 5. Friedrich, under difficulties, prepares for a new campaign; 6. Valori goes on an electioneering mission to Dresden; 7. Friedrich in Silesia; unusually busy; 8. The martial boy and his English versus the laws of nature; 9. The Austrian-Saxon army invades Silesia, across the mountains; 10. Battle of Hohenfriedberg; 11. Camp of Chlum: Friedrich cannot achieve peace; 12. Battle of Sohr; 13. Saxony and Austria make a surprising last attempt; 14. Battle of Kesselsdorf; 15. Peace of Dresden: Friedrich does march home; Book XVI. The Ten Years of Peace, 1746-1756: 1. Sans-Souci; 2. Peep at Voltaire and his divine Emilie (by candlelight) in the tide of events; 3. European war falls done. Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle; 4. Cocceji finishes the law-reform; Friedrich is printing his Poesies; 5. Strangers of note come to Berlin, in 1750; 6. Berlin carrousel, and Voltaire visible there; 7. M. de Voltaire has a painful Jew-lawsuit; 8. Ost-Friesland and the shipping interests; 9. Second act of the Voltaire visit; 10. Demon newswriter, of 1752; 11. Third act and catastrophe of the Voltaire visit; 12. Of the afterpiece, which proved still more tragical; 13. Romish-King question; English-privateer question; 14. There is like to be another war ahead; 15. Anti-Prussian war-symptoms: Friedrich visible for a moment....
