macedonia's-madman

Updated: July 21, 2025

That of "GLOIRE," which he owns to at starting, we saw how soon it died out, choked in the dire realities. That of Conquering Hero, in the Macedonia's-madman style, was at all times far from him, if the reader knew it, perhaps never farther from any King who had such allurements to it, such opportunities for it.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 14