History of Friedrich II of Prussia, appendix
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, appendix
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les farther north is REINSBERG (properly
RHYNSBERG), where Friedrich as Crown-Prince lived his happiest few
years. The details of which were familiar to us long ago,--and no
doubt dwell clear and soft, in their appropriate "pale moonlight,"
in Friedrich's memory on this occasion. Some time after his
Accession, he gave the place to Prince Henri, who lived there till
1802. It is now fallen all dim; and there is nothing at New Ruppin
but a remembrance.
To the hither edge of this Rhyn-Luoh, from Berlin, I guess there may be five-and-twenty miles, in a northwest direction; from Potsdam, whence Friedrich starts to-day, about, the same distance north-by-west; "at Seelenhorst," where Fromme waits him, Friedrich has already had 30 miles of driving,--rate 10 miles an hour, as we chance to observe. Notable things, besides the Spade- husbandries he is intent on, solicit his remembrance in this region. Of Freisack and "Heavy-Peg" with her didactic batterings there, I suppose he, in those fixed times, knows nothing, pro
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