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For Freytag, too, is now raging, ignited by such percussion of the terrors; and speaks, not like what they call "a learned sergeant", but like a drilled sergeant in heat of battle: Vol-taire's tongue, also, and Collini's, "Your Excellenz never heard such brazen-faced lies thrown on a man; that I had offered, for 1,000 thalers, to let them go; that I had" In short, the thing has caught fire; broken into flaming chaos again.

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16