Vulgar words in History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 (Page 1)

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~   ~   ~   Sentence 459   ~   ~   ~

-- After the Peace, D'O had Court-Martial, which sentenced him to death, Friedrich making it perpetual imprisonment: "Perhaps not a traitor, only a blockhead!" thought Friedrich.

~   ~   ~   Sentence 945   ~   ~   ~

Which I have often thought of; hearing mutinous blockheads, "glorious Sons of Freedom" to their own thinking, ask their natural commanding Officer, "Are not we as good as thou?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 947   ~   ~   ~

Not a whit of it, you mutinous blockheads; very far from it indeed!

~   ~   ~   Sentence 3,446   ~   ~   ~

Though articulately stupid as ever, in this Book of Catharine's, she comes out with a dumb weight, of silence, of obstinacy, of intricate abrupt rigor, which--who knows but it may savor of dumb unconscious wisdom in the fat old blockhead?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,102   ~   ~   ~

Nobody seems to be able for his business; Lefebvre a blockhead (DUMMER TEUFEL), who knows nothing of mining: the Generals, too, where are they?

~   ~   ~   Sentence 4,360   ~   ~   ~

There were about 6,000 of those poor fellows,--specimens of the bastard heroic, under difficulties, from every country in the world; Beckwith and I know not what other English specimens of the lawless heroic; who were all cashiered, officer and man, on getting to Berlin.

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