Secret Memoirs of the Court of Berlin : Or the Character of the King of Prussia, His Ministers, Mistresses, Generals, Courtiers, Favourites, And the Royal Family of Prussia I
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No terms are too hyperbolical to express the excessive negligence of his domestic affairs, their disorder, and his waste of time. The valets dread his violence ; but they are the first to turn his inca- pacity to derision. Not a paper in its place ; not a word written at the bottom of any of the memorials ; not a letter personally opened ; no human power could induce him to read forty lines together. It is at once the tumult of vehemence and the torpor of inanity. His natural son, the Count of ...Brandenburg, is the only one who can rouse him from his lethargy ; he loves the boy to adoration. His countenance brightens the moment he appears, and he amuses himself, every morning, a considerable time with thi& child, and this, even of his pleasures, is the only one in which he is regular; for the remaining hours are wasted in inexplicable confusion. His ill-humour the 209 210 SECRET COURT MEMOIRS. other day, for example, which I had supposed was occasioned by the quarrel at Charlottenburg, induced me to enquire into particulars.
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