Works - 21 Author:Voltaire Volume: 21 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1762 Original Publisher: Printed for J. Newbery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Book... more »s.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ANNALS O F T H E EMPIRE FROM THE TIME OF CHAR LE M AGN E. ;,£ R E D E R I C K II. ' Twenty-sixth Emperor. 1214. OTHO being vanquifhed, and totally abandoned, retires to Brunfwick, where he i - left in peace, becaufe he is no longer formidable. He is not:depofed, but forgot. He is faid to have become a devotee: the refource of the . unhappy, and the paffion of weak minds. Hi /. penance is faid to have confifted in his being''/''' thrown down and kicked by his kitehen-boys, ''- ff as if the kicks of a turnfpit could expiate the'' ' r i /- r'/ faults of a prince. . . 1-215. Frederick II. emperor in confequence of the yi« less