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A quiet place part ii movie. A quiet place part ii reddit. A Quiet Place Part ii 2. A quiet place part ii cast. HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH II OF PRUSSIA V 12 THOMAS CARLYLE Prepared by D. R. Thompson < \n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it > Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia" Book XII Processed by D. Thompson BOOK XII. FIRST SILESIAN WAR AWAKENING A GENERAL EUROPEAN ONE BEGINS. December 1740-May 1741. Chapter I. OF SCHLESIEN OR SILESIA. Schlesien what we call Silesia lies in elliptic shape spread on the top of Europe partly girt with mountains like the crown or crest to that part of the Earth;--highest table-land of Germany or of the Cisalpine Countries; and sending rivers into all the seas. The summit or highest level of it is in the southwest; longest diameter is from northwest to southeast. From Crossen whither Friedrich is now driving to the Jablunka Pass which issues upon Hungary is above 250 miles; the AXIS therefore or longest diameter of our Ellipse we may call 230 English miles;--its shortest or conjugate diameter from Friedland in Bohemia (Wallenstein's old Friedland) by Breslau across the Oder to the Polish Frontier is about 100. The total area of Schlesien is counted to be some 20000 square miles nearly the third of England Proper. Schlesien--will the reader learn to call it by that name on occasion? for in these sad Manuscripts of ours the names alternate --is a fine fertile useful and beautiful Country. It leans sloping as we hinted to the East and to the North; a long curved buttress of Mountains ("RIESENGEBIRGE Giant Mountains" is their best-known name in foreign countries) holding it up on the South and West sides. This Giant-Mountain Range--which is a kind of continuation of the Saxon-Bohemian "Metal Mountains (ERZGEBIRGE)" and of the straggling Lausitz Mountains to westward of these --shapes itself like a bill-hook (or elliptically as was said): handle and hook together may be some 200 miles in length. The precipitous side of this is in general turned outwards towards Bohmen Mahren Ungarn (Bohemia Moravia Hungary in our dialects); and Schlesien lies inside irregularly sloping down towards the Baltic and towards the utmost East From the Bohemian side of these Mountains there rise two Rivers: Elbe tending for the West; Morawa for the South;--Morawa crossing Moravia gets into the Donau and thence into the Black-Sea; while Elbe after intricate adventures among the mountains and then prosperously across the plains is out with its many ships into the Atlantic. Two rivers we say from the Bohemian or steep side: and again from the Silesian side there rise other two the Oder and the Weichsel (VISTULA); which start pretty near one another in the Southeast and after wide windings get both into the Baltic at a good distance apart. For the first thirty or in parts fifty miles from the Mountains Silesia slopes somewhat rapidly; and is still to be called a Hill-country rugged extensive elevations diversifying it: but after that the slope is gentle and at length insensible or noticeable only by the way the waters run. From the central part of it Schlesien pictures itself to you as a plain; growing ever flatter ever sandier as it abuts on the monotonous endless sand-flats of Poland and the Brandenburg territories; nothing but Boundary Stones with their brass inscriptions marking where the transition is; and only some Fortified Town not far off keeping the door of the Country secure in that quarter. On the other hand the Mountain part of Schlesien is very picturesque; not of Alpine height anywhere (the Schnee-Koppe itself is under 5000 feet) so that verdure and forest wood fail almost nowhere among the Mountains; and multiplex industry besung by rushing torrents and the swift young rivers nestles itself high up; and from wheat husbandry madder and maize husbandry to damask-weaving metallurgy charcoal-burning tar-distillery Schlesien has many trades and has long been expert and busy at them to a high degree. A very pretty Ellipsis or irregular Oval on the summit of the European Continent;--"like the palm of a left hand well stretched out with the Riesengebirge for thumb! " said a certain Herr to me stretching out his arm in that fashion towards the northwest. Palm well stretched out measuring 250 miles; and the crossway 100. There are still beavers in Schlesien; the Katzbach River has gold grains in it a kind of Pactolus not now worth working; and in the scraggy lonesome pine-woods grimy individuals with kindled mounds of pine-branches and smoke carefully kept down by sods are sweating out a substance which they inform you is to be tar. HISTORICAL EPOCHS OF SCHLESIEN;--AFTER THE QUADS AND MARCHMEN. Who first lived in Schlesien or lived long since in it there is no use in asking nor in telling if one knew. "The QUADI and the Lygii" says Dryasdust in a groping manner: Quadi and consorts in the fifth or sixth Century continues he with more confidence shifted Rome-ward following the general track of contemporaneous mankind; weak remnant of Quadi was thereupon overpowered by Slavic populations and their Country became Polish which the eastern rim of it still essentially is. That was the end of the Quadi in those parts says History. But they cannot speak nor appeal for themselves; History has them much at discretion. Rude burial urns with a handful of ashes in them have been dug up in different places; these are all the Archives and Histories the Quadi now have. It appears their name signifies WICKED. They are those poor Quadi (WICKED PEOPLE) who always go along with the Marcomanni (MARCHMEN) in the bead-roll Histories one reads; and I almost guess they must have been of the same stock: "Wickeds and Borderers;" considered on both sides of the Border to belong to the Dangerous Classes in those times. Two things are certain: First QUAD and its derivatives have to this day in the speech of rustic Germans something of that meaning--"nefarious" at least "injurious" "hateful and to be avoided:" for example QUADdel "a nettle-burn;" QUETSchen "to smash" (say your thumb while hammering); &c. &c. And then a second thing: The Polish equivalent word is ZLE (Busching says ZLEXI); hence ZLEzien SCHLEsien meaning merely BADland QUADland what we might called DAMAGitia or Country where you get into Trouble. That is the etymology or what passes for such. As to the History of Schlesien hitherwards of these burial urns dug up in different places I notice as not yet entirely buriable Three Epochs. FIRST EPOCH; CHRISTIANITY: A. D. 966. Introduction of Christianity; to the length of founding a Bishopric that year so hopeful were the aspects; "Bishopric of Schmoger" (SchMAGram dim little Village still discoverable on the Polish frontier not far from the Town of Namslau); Bishopric which after one removal farther inward got across the Oder to "WRUTISLAV" which me now call Breslau; and sticks there as Bishopric of Breslau to this day. Year 966: it was in Adalbert our Prussian Saint and Missionary's younger time. Preaching by zealous Polacks must have been going on while Adalbert Bright in Nobleness was studying at Magdeburg and ripening for high things in the general estimation. This was a new gift from the Polacks this of Christianity; an infinitely more important one than that nickname of "ZLEZIEN" or "DAMAGitia" stuck upon the poor Country had been. SECOND EPOCH; GET GRADUALLY CUT LOOSE FROM POLAND: A. 1139-1159. Twenty years of great trouble in Poland which were of lasting benefit to Schlesien. In 1139 the Polack King a very potent Majesty whom we could name but do not died; and left his Dominions shared by punctual bequest among his five sons. Punctual bequest did avail: but the eldest Son (who was King and had Schlesien with much else to his share) began to encroach to grasp; upon which the others rose upon him flung him out into exile; redivided; and hoped now they might have quiet. Hoped but were disappointed; and could come to no sure bargain for the next twenty years--not till "the eldest brother" first author of these strifes "died an exile in Holstein" or was just about dying and had agreed to take Schlesien for all claims and be quiet thenceforth. His this eldest's three Sons did accordingly in 1159 get Schlesien instead of him; their uncles proving honorable. Schlesien thereby was happy enough to get cut loose from Poland and to continue loose; steering a course of its own;--parting farther and farther from Poland and its habits and fortunes. These three Sons of the late Polish Majesty who died in exile in Holstein are the "Piast Dukes" much talked of in Silesian Histories: of whose merits I specify this only That they so soon as possible strove to be German. They were Progenitors of all the "Piast Dukes" Proprietors of Schlesien thenceforth till the last of them died out in 1675--and a certain ERBVERBRUDERUNG they had entered into could not take effect at that time. Their merits as Sovereign Dukes seem to have been considerable; a certain piety wisdom and nobleness of mind not rare among them; and no doubt it was partly their merit if partly also their good luck that they took to Germany and leant thitherward; steering looser and looser from Poland in their new circumstances. They themselves by degrees became altogether German; their Countries by silent immigration introduction of the arts the composures and sobrieties became essentially so. On the eastern rim there is still a Polack remnant its territories very sandy its condition very bad; remnant which surely ought to cease its Polack jargon and learn some dialect of intelligible Teutsch as the first condition of improvement. In all other parts Teutsch reigns; and Schlesien is a green abundant Country; full of metallurgy damask-weaving grain-husbandry. -- instead of gasconade gilt anarchy rags dirt and NIE POZWALAM. A. 1327; GET COMPLETELY CUT LOOSE. The Piast Dukes who soon ceased to be Polish