The Works of Thomas Carlyle
Volume 16. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great Vol V
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- Author: Thomas Carlyle
- Editor: Henry Duff Traill
- Date Published: November 2010
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Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) was one of the most influential authors of the nineteenth century. Eagerly studied at the highest level of intellectual society, his satirical essays and perceptive historical biographies caused him to be regarded for much of the Victorian period as a literary genius and eminent social philosopher. After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1814, he published his first scholarly work on German literature in 1824, before finding literary success with his history of the French Revolution in 1837. After falling from favour during the first part of the twentieth century, his work has more recently become the subject of scholarly re-examination. His introduction of German literature and philosophy into the British intellectual milieu profoundly influenced later philosophical and literary studies. These volumes are reproduced from the 1896 Centenary Edition of his collected works. Volume 16 contains the fifth volume of The Life of Frederick the Great.
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- Date Published: November 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108022392
- length: 428 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 27 mm
- weight: 0.78kg
- contains: 2 b/w illus. 4 maps
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Table of Contents
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.
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