The Life of Baron Frederick Trenck
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Excerpt from The Life of Baron Frederick Trenck: Containing His Adventures, and Also His Excessive Sufferings During Ten Years Imprisonment at the Fortress of Magdeburgh Among all the heroes of imprisonment over whom the most of us have sighed in our childhood, none have made a deeper impression than the subject of this work. Besides his own memoirs, which we now present in a new form, several biographers, at different times, have found sufficient additional particulars of his eventful life from which to form several large volumes. The latest of these is Maj. Whittingham, who, in his Personal Recollections of a Ten Months´ Residence in Berlin, published in 1849, says: "Whilst a handsome young officer, he attracted the regards and won the affections of Frederick´s youngest and favorite sister, the Princess Amelia, who was as much distinguished by her beauty and wit as by her exalted rank. Alas, she was also a philosopher like her brother. Her affections, therefore, had their full play in the absence of all religious restraint. "D ball lie ewig grünen bleibe, Die fetone jeit ber jungcn liebe!" Or, "Oh! that ever fresh from below The course of youthful love might flow." "But Shakspeare has said that course ´never did run smooth,´ and the present case was no exception to the illustrious rule. The Great Frederick decidedly objected to his sister becoming Mrs. Trenck. He, at the same time, wished to avoid all scandal, and to combine these objects no time was to be lost. He therefore gave Trenck, who was his own aid-de-camp, strong hints to mind and mend his conduct. His hints were thrown away. Who that has been young himself can wonder at the young lieutenant´s blindness and obstinacy? 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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