History of Friedrich Ii, of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great 7
History of Friedrich Ii, of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great 7
Carlyle, Thomas, 1795-1881
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The risk must be run ; and it is now smaller than it will ever again be.^ Mitchell, whose account is a fortnight later than the Dialogue itself, does confess, * My Lord, these reasons, though unhappily the thing seems to have failed, *^ appear to me to be solid and unanswerable.^ ^ Much more do they to Tempelhof, who sees deeper into the bottom of them than Mitchell did ; and finds that the failure is only superficial.^ The real success, thinks Tempelhof, would be, Could the King manoeuvre hims...elf into Silesia, and entice a cunctatory Daun away with him thither. A cunctatory Daun to preside over matters there^ in his superstitiously cautious way ; leaving Saxony free to the Reichsfolk, — ^whom a Hiilsen, left with his small remnant in Schlettau, might easily take charge of, till Silesia were settled ? * The plan was bold, was new, and completely worthy of Friedrich,^ votes Tempelhof; ^and it required the most consummate delicacy of execution. To lure Daun on, alwa}^ with the prospect opened to him of knocking you on llie head, and always by your rapidity and ingenuity to take care that he never got it done.** This is Tempelhof s notion : and this, sure enough, was actually Friedrich> mode of management in the weeks following; though whether already altogether planned in his head, or only gradually planning itself, as is more likely, nobody can say.
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