Identifier: historyofallnati14wrig (find matches)
Title: A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, John Henry, 1852-1908
Subjects: World history
Publisher: (Philadelphia, New York : Lea Brothers & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ith utter disregard of thewishes he had expressed vnxh. reference to marriage, his father,even in this weightiest occasion of his life, had decided concern-ing him in a manner wholly arbitrary and despotic. At the urgentdesire of the court of Vienna, Frederick William decided tomarry him to a niece of the empress, the Princess Elizabeth ofBrunswick-Bevern. His fathers recommendation that she was modest and retiring, neither homely nor yet beautiful, above all aGod-fearing woman, could not please him. Furthermore, he knewwell that, through Grumbkows intermediation, Seckendorf, the impe-rial envoy, had effected the entire arrangement. The same court ofVienna which had already foiled his earnest wish and his sistersfor an English alliance, which had made his father its slave, urgedon him this unwelcome bride in order to hold him in its fettersfor life. To avoid another imprisonment at Küstrin, the prince was com-pelled to submit. The formal engagement was made in March,1732. PLATE XIII.
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Queen Elizabeth Chnslina. From the original painting by Thomas Huber (1700-1779). Berlin, HohenzoUern Museum in the Palace of Monbijou.Hiſtory of All Nations, Vol. XIV., page Stl. A COMlULSOin MAURI AGE. 221 As Frederick at Küstrin had formed himself to be an administra-tor in state affairs, so at Ruppin he was developed as a soldier.(Gradually he began to perceive that in the apparently childish andcomfortless military Life, there dwelt a deeper worth: that the inimi-table skill in military exercises, which had been beaten into thePrussian soldiers, must secure them a great superiority on the battle-lield ; that the rapidity of their lire in itself rendered them equal to anenemy t^^^ee or thrice as strong. He devoted himself to liis mihtaryoccupations -with such zeal that even tlie king, almost against hisincUnation, expressed Ms satisfaction with the performances of Fred-erick and his regiment. Now he urged upon the king by force tosecure effectually his rightful claims upon Jüli

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