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Excerpt from Frederick the Great on Kingcraft: From the Original Ms. With Reminiscences and Turkish Stories Fifty years of a hard business life have not inspired me with a predilection for the burdens of authorship, nor rendered me fit for the due fulfilling of so onerous a task. If I add another book to the books of which there is no end, it is not because I have any personal inclination that way, but because I yield to the solicitations of various friends, and especially of relatives, who are numerous. I launch my little craft on the waters, most earnestly trusting that, as regards my relatives, they may keep a few copies of it to interest their descendants, and, as regards my readers generally, that they will not blame me for obtruding the episodes of a private family on their notice, or for driving them distracted over my Turkish stories. I can only pray that I may be treated as the jovial little hunchback Hassan treated the houris of the bath. This book consists of five parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.