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  Frederick II of Prussia - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The works of Niccolò Machiavelli, such as The Prince, were considered a guideline for the behavior of a king in Frederick's age.
In 1739, Frederick finished his "Antimachiavel, ou Examen du Prince de Machiavel" - a writing in which he opposes Machiavelli.
Frederick did not have a vision for an unified Germany; this had to wait until Bismarck planned the wars of unification a century later.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Frederick_II_of_Prussia   (1442 words)

  
 For how many generations can you hyphenate surnames? - www.smh.com.au
He abolished torture; he went to court and lost rather than order a miller to demolish his windmill (it is still there).
He wrote books and essays (one titled The Antimachiavel), composed music and asked his subjects to become happy according to their own beliefs (religious freedom).
He made his officers and top public servants responsible for the deeds of their charges, and insisted that he was the first servant of the state.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/12/19/1071337138686.html   (716 words)

  
 Welkya - International Essay Prize Contest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
Thus Frederick II, whose academy was bound to serving "the interest of the State", objected when the Berlin Academy proposed to raise the question of "a truthful assessment of the Living Forces".
Manifestly, that issue seemed far too obscure to the author of Antimachiavel.
Instead, Frederick decreed, in 1780, the question of "whether it is useful that the people be deceived, either by their being allured into new errors, or by being confirmed in their present ones."
www.bulgaria.com /welkya/kritika/ese.html   (2274 words)

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