...is my son, who has ruined me and disgraced himself. Voltaire advised Frederic to imitate Cumberland. If every string breaks, wrote Frederic to the Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick, throw yourself into Magdeburg . Situated as we are, we must persuade ourselves that one of us is worth four others. Morning dawned on new miseries; night came without a respite to his cares. He spoke serenely of the path to...