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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... habits, i. 349; no love for the French or their fashions, 351; Brobdingnagian waggeries, 352; ii. 82; an original North-German Spartan, i. 353, 393; charge of avarice, i. 354; ii. 138; his siege of Stralsund, i. 356, 362; regard for Charles xn., 360, 365; and original farewell Letter of Instructions, 361; makes his Will in favour of the Queen, 361, 404; ii. 57; returns victorious, i. 366, 374; visited by Czar Peter, 375; Tutors selected for Fritz, 385; his notions about education, 388; fond of hunting, 393; ii. 139; habits at Wus-terhausen, i. 399; his Tobacco-Parlia-ment, 400; ii. 72 (see Tobacco-Parlia-ment); alarming attack of 'nephritic-colic, i. 404; interest in Cleve-Julich, the Pfalz-Neuburg Heritage,407; ii. 37, 65, 297; iii. 217; interferes for the Heidelberg Protestants, i. 411; a King who stayed well at home, 414; ii. 260; loses favour with the Kaiser, i. 415; disappointed with his son Fritz, 426; assists at the birth of Princess Amelia, ii. 14; list of his Ten Children, 15; signs Treaty of Hanover, 37; gets annoyed with the Double-Marriage Treaty, 43,136 (see Double-Marriage); his recruiting difficulties, and predatory encroachments, 50,108; George i. fires up, 55; surrounded by intrigues, 56; snared for the Kaiser by Grumkow and Seckendorf, 61 (see Grumkow); Treaty of Wusterhausen, 65, 93; 'pos-sessed' as by two devils, 69, 95, 147, 168, 200, 270; horse-play with Gund-ling, 88; his irreverence for the Sciences and Fine Arts, 85; summary treatment of Wolf, 86; how Queen Sophie might have managed him, 95; his sorrow at the death of George i., 106; unsuspected tears in the rugged man, 106; hypochondriacal fits, 107; talks of abdicating, 110; visits King August at Dresden, 113, 210; disso-lute entertainments, 115; singular mutual liking of the tw...
