Original Anecdotes of Frederick the Great, King of Prussia: And of His Family, His Court, His Ministers, His Academies, and His Literary Friends; Collected During a Familiar Intercourse of Twenty Years with that Prince, Volume 1Printed at the Office of the U.S. gazette for Robert Gray, Alexandria, 1806 - Prussia (Germany) |
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