Macaulay is not an FW fan! To the point where the editor of my 1882 volume feels the need to add a footnote saying Macaulay is being unduly harsh.
*is dubious* oh, okay, fine, but still
The love that dare not speak its name:
Wow, this was so over-the-top that I wasn't even sure if he was referring to what I thought he was referring to! (He was.) What selenak said about the difference between then and now!
To Frederick William, the mere circumstance that any persons whatever, men, women, or children, Prussians or foreigners, were within reach of his toes and of his cane, appeared to be a sufficient reason for proceeding to belabor them. Frederick required provocation as well as vicinity; nor was he ever known to inflict this paternal species of correction on any but his born subjects; though on one occasion M. Thiebault had reason during a few seconds to anticipate the high honor of being an exception to this general rule.
Wow! Macaulay is something else. This was quite entertaining to read, though also kind of... hm. Idiosyncratic?
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Re: Macaulay - FW
Date: 2020-09-05 04:30 am (UTC)*is dubious* oh, okay, fine, but still
The love that dare not speak its name:
Wow, this was so over-the-top that I wasn't even sure if he was referring to what I thought he was referring to! (He was.) What
To Frederick William, the mere circumstance that any persons whatever, men, women, or children, Prussians or foreigners, were within reach of his toes and of his cane, appeared to be a sufficient reason for proceeding to belabor them. Frederick required provocation as well as vicinity; nor was he ever known to inflict this paternal species of correction on any but his born subjects; though on one occasion M. Thiebault had reason during a few seconds to anticipate the high honor of being an exception to this general rule.
Wow! Macaulay is something else. This was quite entertaining to read, though also kind of... hm. Idiosyncratic?