Frederick the Great (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Frederick the Great The father of Frederick the Great, Frederick William I, was a violent bully, notorious for such acts as publicly beating his son in the camp of the Saxon King, cudgeling the inhabitants of his Capitol and flinging the judges down stairs. To his coarse, brutish nature everything French was repulsive and everything British equally abhorrent; he grossly insulted the British Ambassador and forced his Queen, Sophia Dorothea, daughter of George I of England and Hanover-Brunswick, to drink to the downfall of the English. Reddaway, the biographer of Frederick the Great, speaks of Frederick William I as a boor "whose ideal of life was to sleep on straw in a barn, wash at daybreak in a tub, don a plain uniform, inspect farms, account books and soldiers, gorge himself with rude German dishes in the middle of the day, snore under a tree in the afternoon, and devote the evening to tobacco, buffoonery and strong drink... His mixture of fervent piety and immorality suggests that he was hardly sane... What he was to his children may be inferred from the fact that his daughter became his bitter satirist, and his son his bitter foe... He drank himself to death before he was fifty-two." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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