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This marriage was on foot, not quite completed; when Karl Philip, Cadet of the Pfalz, came to Berlin;–a rather idle young man, once in the clerical way; now gone into the military, with secular outlooks, his elder Brother, Heir-Apparent of the Pfalz, “having no children:”–came to Berlin, in the course of visiting, and roving about. [...]

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Of the Kaiser’s immense ambition there can be no question. He is stretching himself out on every side; “seriously wishing,” thinks Friedrich, “that he could ‘revivify the German Reich,’”–new Barbarossa in improved FIXED form; how noble! Certainly, to King Friedrich’s sad conviction, “the Austrian Court is aiming to swallow all manner of dominions that may [...]

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