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- king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786; brought Prussia military prestige by winning the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War (1712-1786)
How To Use Frederick the Great In A Sentence
- Secretary Rumsfeld invoked Frederick the Great's dictum from General Principles of War: ‘What design would I be forming if I were the enemy?’
- Frederick the Great is said to have addressed these words to his nephew, “Je puis vous assurer, par mon expérience personelle, que ce plaisir est peu agréable à cultiver.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Frederick the Great, the bosom friend of Voltaire, once said: ‘Religion is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses.’
- Altogether I am not overproud of my soldiering performances; still, as I did no worse than Frederick the Great of The Purple Land
- The palace and front garden are in unattractive "rococo" style, especially the rooms occupied by Frederick the Great; but the gardens in the rear of the palace are large and most attractive. In and Around Berlin
- Carl Philipp Emmanuel studied music only with his famous father, and he must have been a brilliant keyboard player; the future Frederick the Great chose the young man to be his harpsichordist, a post he held for almost 30 years.
- The palace of the king, different gardens, the aquarial museum and many other noted buildings border on "Unter den Linden," which is nearly a mile long, and thronged all day with pedestrians.] [Illustration: STATUE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT, BERLIN, GERMANY. Shepp's Photographs of the World
- Carl Philip Emmanuel, his third son, was cembalist in the royal orchestra of Frederick the Great. The World's Great Men of Music
- We halted under a memorial statue to Frederick the Great.
- Even Prussia was never a major power until Frederick the Great stole Silesia from the Hapsburg. Matthew Yglesias » The Fall of Poland