Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg

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Excerpt from Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg: From the Earliest Accounts, to the Death of Frederick I. King of Prussia, To Which Are Added, Four DissertationsThough I was fenfible of the difficulnes which a German lyes under tn writing in a foreign language, yet I determined to draw up thefe papers in French, becaufe it is the mofi pol {bed and the' mofi general language in Europe, and it reems to be iri fome meafure afcertained by the excellent wr1ters in the reign of Lewis XIV After all, it is no more furpri fing that a German ¿lould, in our days, write in French, than it was in Cicero 3 time that a Roman fhould write in Greek. I (hall fay no more concerning this performance, left the preface fhould run to fach a length as to exceed the work itfelf. 'tis the reader's bufinefs to judge, whetherl have executed the tails I undertook, or have loll, my tune and labour.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.