world-spectre

Updated: May 3, 2025

Then there was the World-Spectre of the Pretender, stretching huge over Creation, like the Brocken-Spectre in hazy weather; against whom how protect yourself, except by cannonading for the Kaiser at Messina; by rushing into every brabble that rose, and hiring the parties with money to fight it out well?

Thomas Carlyle - History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05