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We shall know at any rate that to Grumkow, in the Autumn 1731, these words were luculent and significant: consciously they tell us something of young Friedrich; unconsciously a good deal of Lieutenant-General Schulenburg, who with his strict theologies, his military stiffnesses, his reticent, pipe-clayed, rigorous and yet human ways, is worth looking at, as an antique species extinct in our time.
I confess I see no harm in that, though a few words on the strange mixture of legend and history might have been useful, because the case of Theodoric is one of the most luculent testimonies for that blending of fact and fancy in strictly historical times which people find it so difficult to believe, but which offers the key, and the only true key, for many of the most perplexing problems, both of history and of mythology.
These glimpses of the Crown-Prince, reflected on us in this manner, are not very luculent to the reader, light being indifferent, and mirror none of the best: but some features do gleam forth, good and not so good; which, with others coming, may gradually coalesce into something conceivable.
The King had it, and made others have; and, what is extraordinary, I never felt myself so free at any table." The other is among the Robinson Papers: doubtless very luculent to Robinson, who is now home in England, but remembers many a thing.
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