Vulgar words in History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 (Page 1)
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Men of genius have a hard time, I perceive, whether born on the throne or off it; and must expect contradictions next to unendurable,--the plurality of blockheads being so extreme!
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of Denmark rejoicing over red wine; August the Strong gradually producing his "three hundred and fifty-four bastards;" [_Memoires de Bareith_ (Wilhelmina's Book, Londres, 1812), i.
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Bridge first, coming from the palisade and Office-house Court, has not only human sentries walking at it; but two white Eagles perch near it, and two black ditto, symbols of the heraldic Prussian Eagle, screeching about in their littery way; item two black Bears, ugly as Sin, which are vicious wretches withal, and many times do passengers a mischief.
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But King August himself,--though a jovial social kind of animal, quite otherwise occupied in the world; busy producing his three hundred and fifty-four Bastards there, and not careful of Church matters at all,--had expressed his indignant surprise.