of Russia's, or shall himself be attacked by any of them."
Hailed by Bruhl, as natural, with his liveliest approval.
"A glorious Deliberation, that, indeed!" writes he: "It clears the
way of action for Russia's Allies in this matter; and for us too;
though nobody can blame us, if we proceed with the extremest
caution,"--and rather wait till the Bear is nearly killed.
[MEMOIRE RAISONNE (in Gesammelte Nachrichten italic>), i. 422.]

Many marvels Friedrich had deciphered out of this Weingarten-Menzel
Apocalypse of Satan's Invisible World; and one often fancies
Friedrich's tone of mind, in his intense inspecting of that fateful
continent of darkness, and his labyrinthic stepping by degrees to
the oracular points, which have a light in them when flung open.
But in respect of practical interest, this of October, 1755 (which
would get to Potsdam probably in few weeks after) must have
surpassed all the others. Marvels many, one after the other:
[For example, or in recapitulation: a Treaty of Warsaw or Leipzig,
to partition him (18th May, 1745); Treaty of Petersburg (22d May,
1746, new form of Warsaw Treaty, with Czarina superadded);
tremulous Quasi-Accession thereto of his Polish Majesty (most
tremulous, hypothetic Quasi-Accession, "Yes-AND-No," 15th August,
1747, and often afterwards); first Deliberation of the Russian
Senate, 15th May, 1753; &c. &c. For example, or in recapitulation:
a Treaty of Warsaw or Leipzig, to partition him (18th May, 1745);
Treaty of Petersburg (22d May, 1746, new form of Warsaw Treaty,
with Czarina superadded); tremulous Quasi-Accession thereto of his
Polish Majesty (most tremulous, hypothetic Quasi-Accession,
"Yes-AND-No," 15th August, 1747, and often afterwards); first
Deliberation of the Russian Senate, 15th May, 1753; &c. &c.] no