...ith Frederic, who at once framed the most colossal design that ever entered the mind of a soldier,—to execute against Austria a series of measures like those against Saxony at Pirna, to besiege Prague and compel the army of Charles of Lorraine to surrender. But the cautious Daun, a man of high birth, esteemed by the empress queen and beloved by the Catholic Church, pressed slowly forward to rai...