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He stood six feet three inches in his shoes, knocked\ndown his commanding officer, was put under arrest, offered to pay\nfor his release by bringing in three Turks heads within an\nhour, was released on that condition, and actually brought in\nfour Turks heads. When afterwards cashiered, he\nsettled on his estates in Croatia, and drilled a thousand of his\ntenantry to act as Pandours against the\nbanditti. In 1740, he served with his Pandours under Maria\nTheresa, and behaved himself as one of the more brutal sort of\nbanditti. He offered to capture Frederick of Prussia, and\ndid capture his tent. Many more of his adventures are\nvaingloriously recounted by himself in the Mmoires du\nBaron Franz de Trenck, published at Paris in 1787. This\nTrenck took poison when imprisoned at Grtz, and died in\nOctober, 1747, at the age of thirty-six.\nHis cousin Frederick is the Trenck who here tells a story of\nhimself that abounds in lively illustration of the days of\nFrederick the Great. He professes that Frederick the King\nowed him a grudge, because Frederick the Trenck had, when\neighteen years old, fascinated the Princess Amalie at a\nball. But as Frederick the Greater was in correspondence\nwith his cousin Franz at the time when that redoubtable personage\nwas planning the seizure of Frederick the Great, there may have\nbeen better ground for the Trencks arrest than he allows\nus to imagine. Mr. Carlyle shows that Frederick von der\nTrenck had been three months in prison, and was still in prison,\nat the time of the battle of the Sohr, in which he professes to\nhave been engaged. Frederick von der Trenck, after his\nrelease from imprisonment in 1763, married a burgomasters\ndaughter, and went into business as a wine merchant. Then\nhe became adventurous again. His adventures, published in\nGerman in 1786-7, and in his own French version in 1788, formed\none of the most popular books of its time. Seven plays were\nfounded on them, and ladies in Paris wore their bonnets \nla Trenck. But the French finally guillotined the author,\nwhen within a year of threescore and ten, on the 26th of July,\n1794. He had gone to Paris in 1792, and joined there in the\nstrife of parties. At the guillotine he struggled with the\nexecutioner.\nH.M.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 2668 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Trenck, Friedrich \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jun 1, 2001 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Morley, Henry, 1822-1894 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslator\u003c\/b\u003e: Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Trenck, Friedrich \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43212271845533,"sku":"gb-2668-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/2668_bbbf6345-72f7-4b08-b53b-e66694298dba.jpg?v=1671253910"},{"product_id":"the-life-and-adventures-of-baron-trenck-volume-2-gb-2669","title":"The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Holcroft, the translator of these Memoirs of Baron\nTrenck, was the author of about thirty plays, among which one,\nThe Road to Ruin, produced in 1792, has kept its place\nupon the stage. He was born in December, 1745, the son of a\nshoemaker who did also a little business in horse-dealing.\nAfter early struggles, during which he contrived to learn French,\nGerman, and Italian, Holcroft contributed to a newspaper, turned\nactor, and wrote plays, which appeared between the years 1791 and\n1806. He produced also four novels, the first in 1780, the\nlast in 1807. He was three times married, and lost his\nfirst wife in 1790. In 1794, his sympathy with ideals of\nthe French revolutionists caused him to be involved with Hardy,\nHorne Tooke, and Thelwall, in a charge of high treason; but when\nthese were acquitted, Holcroft and eight others were discharged\nwithout trial.\nHolcroft earned also by translation. He translated,\nbesides these Memoirs of Baron Trenck, Mirabeaus Secret\nHistory of the Court of Berlin, Les Veilles du\nChteau of Madame de Genlis, and the posthumous works\nof Frederick II., King of Prussia, in thirteen volumes.\nThe Memoirs of Baron Trenck were first published at Berlin as\nhis Merkwrdige Lebensbeschreibung, in three volumes\noctavo, in 1786 and 1787. They were first translated into\nFrench by Baron Bock (Metz, 1787); more fully by Letourneur\n(Paris, 1788); and again by himself (Strasbourg, 1788), with\nconsiderable additions. 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A\r\nPrefatory introduction to a work like this, can hope little better usage\r\nfrom the Public than they had; it proclaims the approach of what has\r\noften passed by before, adorned most certainly with greater splendour,\r\nperhaps conducted too with greater regularity and skill: Yet will I not\r\ndespair of giving at least a momentary amusement to my countrymen in\r\ngeneral, while their entertainment shall serve as a vehicle for\r\nconveying expressions of particular kindness to those foreign\r\nindividuals, whose tenderness softened the sorrows of absence, and who\r\neagerly endeavoured by unmerited attentions to supply the loss of their\r\ncompany on whom nature and habit had given me stronger claims.\nThat I should make some reflections, or write down some observations, in\r\nthe course of a long journey, is not strange; that I should present them\r\nbefore the Public is I hope not too daring: the presumption grew up out\r\nof their acknowledged favour, and if too kind culture has encouraged a\r\ncoarse plant till it runs to seed, a little coldness from the same\r\nquarter will soon prove sufficient to kill it. The flattering partiality\r\nof private partisans sometimes induces authors to venture forth, and\r\nstand a public decision; but it is often found to betray them too; not\r\nto be tossed by waves of perpetual contention, but rather to sink in the\r\nsilence of total neglect. What wonder! He who swims in oil must be\r\nbuoyant indeed, if he escapes falling certainly, though gently, to the\r\nbottom; while he who commits his safety to the bosom of the\r\nwide-embracing ocean, is sure to be strongly supported, or at worst\r\nthrown upon the shore.\nOn this principle it has been still my study to obtain from a humane and\r\ngenerous Public that shelter their protection best affords from the\r\npoisoned arrows of private malignity; for though it is not difficult to\r\ndespise the attempts of petty malice, I will not say with the\r\nPhilosopher, that I mean to build a monument to my fame with the stones\r\nthrown at me to break my bones; nor yet pretend to the art of Swift's\r\nGerman Wonder-doer, who promised to make them fall about his head like\r\nso many pillows. Ink, as it resembles Styx in its colour, should\r\nresemble it a little in its operation too; whoever has been once dipt\r\nshould become invulnerable: But it is not so; the irritability of\r\nauthors has long been enrolled among the comforts of ill-nature, and the\r\ntriumphs of stupidity; such let it long remain! Let me at least take\r\ncare in the worst storms that may arise in public or in private life, to\r\nsay with Lear,\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 16445 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Piozzi, Hester Lynch \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 5, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Piozzi, Hester Lynch,1741-1821 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217346658461,"sku":"gb-16445-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/16445.jpg?v=1671425741"},{"product_id":"der-hansische-stahlhof-in-london-gb-25999","title":"Der Hansische Stahlhof in London","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDer Hansische Stahlhof in London - Ein Vortrag, gehalten im Saale des goldenen Sterns zu Bonn am 11. März 1856\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDem Deutschen, der um die Wasserseite der Stadt London zu\r\nbetrachten in Westminster eines jener vielen Dampfboote besteigt,\r\ndie bekanntlich gleich den Droschken in den Straen unserer Stdte\r\nden Themseflu befahren, mag neben den gewaltigen Brcken, den\r\nDomen, die ber Rauch und Nebel emporragen, den endlosen\r\ngeruschvollen Waarenlagern, ein wenig oberhalb der letzten Brcke,\r\nwelche ihre kolossalen Bogen ber den Flu spannt, kurz ehe er\r\nwieder ans Land steigt, ein besonders abgetheilter Quay mit\r\numfangreichen Packhusern ins Auge fallen, dessen Baustil, dessen\r\ngrne Fensterladen und dessen dort seltener Schmuck, einige grne\r\nBume, unwillkrlich an hnliche Pltze in deutschen Seestdten\r\nerinnern. Es ist in der That mitten in dem fremden London ein\r\nFleck, an welchem einst aus unvordenklichen Zeiten her unsere\r\nLandsleute gelebt und den sie bis vor wenigen Jahren besessen\r\nhaben. 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Die Verwandtschaft der norddeutschen Frstenhuser\r\nmit dem englischen besteht ja bis auf diesen Tag; das weie Ro,\r\ndas schon Hengist und Horsa im Schilde fhrten, findet sich bis\r\nheute im Wappen von Braunschweig-Lneburg; es ist der Seerappe,\r\nnach welchem die Sachsen einst dichterisch ihre hochgeschnbelten\r\nSchiffe benannten. Enge verwandtschaftliche Bande der Frsten und\r\ngemeinsamer Ursprung der beiden Vlker haben also die\r\neigenthmliche Entwickelung, welche ihr internationaler Verkehr\r\ngenommen hat, gefrdert.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 25999 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Pauli, Reinhold \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jul 8, 2008 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: German \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Pauli, Reinhold,1823-1882 \/ eBook \/ German","offer_id":43218759745693,"sku":"gb-25999-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/25999.jpg?v=1671504325"},{"product_id":"observations-and-reflections-made-in-the-course-of-a-journey-through-france-italy-and-germany-vol-2-of-2-gb-54519","title":"Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 2 (of 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eObservations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 2 (of 2)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the tenth day of this month we arrived\r\nearly at Naples, for I think it was\r\nabout two oclock in the morning; and sure\r\nthe providence of God preserved us, for never\r\nwas such weather seen by me since I came into\r\nthe world; thunder, lightning, storm at sea,\r\nrain and wind, contending for mastery, and\r\ncombining to extinguish the torches bought\r\nto light us the last stage: Vesuvius, vomiting\r\nfire, and pouring torrents of red hot lava down\r\nits sides, was the only object visible; and\r\nthat we saw plainly in the afternoon thirty\r\nmiles off, where I asked a Franciscan friar,\r\nIf it was the famous volcano? 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