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Quotation from History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle
“My hopes of presenting, in this Last of the Kings, an exemplar to my contemporaries, I confess, are not high”
History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, Book I, Ch. I (Proem) (Project Gutenberg #2101)
Carlyle states his purpose and his doubt that an age expecting no more kings will heed it.
Citation: "My hopes of presenting, in this Last of the Kings, an exemplar to my contemporaries, I confess, are not high" — Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, Book I, Ch. I (Proem) (Project Gutenberg #2101). (id carlyle-frederick-the-great-q3)
