Rabu, 05 Juli 2017

Frederick’s One Big Idea

The Prussian king strove for a well-ordered state—no matter the cost. We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking…bearing up against a world in arms with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a …

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