Vulgar words in History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 (Page 1)
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But such a Sackville has ambition, and, what is fatally more peculiar to him, a chance for unfolding it;--any blockhead has an ambition capable, if you encourage it sufficiently, of running to the infinite.
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Enough of this particular blockhead; and may it be long before we see his like again!-- The English Cavalry was in a rage with Sackville.
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Adieu, a pitying adieu to him forever,--and even to his adoring La Beaumelle, who is rather less a blockhead than he generally seems.
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I wish you knew this Duke [as I have done; a Duke of no ESPRIT, no gift of tongue, in fact no talent at all that I could discern], you would be much astonished; and would say, 'The people whom he beats must be great blockheads.'