none at all.... What is possible to man,
I will do; neither care nor consideration nor effort shall be spared, to
secure the result of my plans. The rest depends on circumstances. Amid
such a number of enemies, one cannot always do what one will, but must
let them prescribe." [Ib. ii. 370-372 ("Leubnitz, before Dresden, 29th
July, 1760").]

An uncomfortable little Gentleman; but full of faculty, if one can
manage to get good of it! Here, what might have preceded all the above,
and been preface to it, is a pretty passage from him; a glimpse he has
had of Sans-Souci, before setting out on those gloomy marchings and
cunctatory hagglings. Henri writes (at Torgau, April 26th, just back
from Berlin and farewell of friends):--

"I mean to march the day after to-morrow. I took arrangements with
General Fouquet [about that long fine-spun Chain of Posts, where we are
to do such service?]--the Black Hussars cannot be here till to-morrow,
otherwise I should have marched a day sooner. My Brother [poor little
invalid Ferdinand] charged me to lay him at your feet. I found him
weak and thin, more so than formerly. Returning hither, the day before
yesterday, I passed through Potsdam; I went to Sans-Souci [April 24th,
1760]:--all is green there; the Garden embellished, and seemed to me
excellently kept. Though these details cannot occupy you at present,
I thought it would give you pleasure to hear of them for a moment."
[Schoning, ii. 233 ("Torgau, 26th April, 1760").] Ah, yes; all is so
green and blessedly silent there: sight of the lost Paradise, actually
IT, visible for a moment yonder, far away, while one goes whirling in
this manner on the illimitable wracking winds!--

Here finally, from a distant part of the War-Theatre, is another Note;
which we will read while Friedrich is at Schieritz. At no other place so
properly; the very date of it, chief date (July 31st), being by accident
synchronous with Schieritz:--

DUKE FERDINAND'S BATTLE OF WARBURG (31st July, 1760).

Duke Ferdinand has opened his difficult Campaign; and especially--just
while that Siege of Dresden blazed and ended--has had three sharp
Fights, which were then very loud in the Gazettes, along with it. Three
once famous Actions; which unexpectedly had little or no result, and are
very much forgotten now. So that bare enumeration of them is nearly
all we are permitted here. Pitt has furnished 7,000 new English, this
Campaign,--there are now 20,000 English in