When he came to
Court he was required to speak by an interpreter when he had an audience
of the king, and to appear in Russian dress. He next entered the
Prussian service as Field-Marshal. He was killed in the battle of
Hochkirchen, in 1758.--ED.]

He observed that the Epicurean philosophy had produced but one exalted
character, whereas Stoicism had been the seminary of great men. What he
now said put me in mind of these noble lines of Lucan.

Hi mores, haec duri immota Catonis
Secta fuit, servare modum finemque tenere,
Naturamque sequi, patriaeque impendere vitam,
Nec sibi sed toti genitum se credere mundo.

LUCAN. Pharsal. lib. ii. l. 380.

These were the stricter manners of the man,
And this the stubborn course in which they ran;
The golden mean unchanging to pursue,
Constant to keep the purpos'd end in view;
Religiously to follow nature's laws,
And die with pleasure in his country's cause.
To think he was not for himself design'd,
But born to be of use to all mankind.

--ROWE.

When he was asked if he would quit the island of which he had undertaken
the protection, supposing a foreign power should create him a Marischal,
and make him governour of a province; he replied, "I hope they will
believe I am more honest, or more ambitious; for," said he, "to accept
of the highest offices under a foreign power would be to serve."

"To have been a colonel, a general or a marischal," said he, "would have
been sufficient for my table, for my taste in dress, for the beauty whom
my rank would have entitled me to attend. But it would not have been
sufficient for this spirit, for this imagination." Putting his hand
upon his bosom.

He reasoned one day in the midst of his nobles whether the commander of
a nation should be married or not. "If he is married," said he, "there
is a risk that he may be distracted by private affairs, and swayed too
much by a concern for his family. If he is unmarried, there is a risk
that not having the tender attachments of a wife and children, he may
sacrifice all to his own ambition." When I said he ought to marry and
have a son to succeed him, "Sir," said he, "what security can I have
that my son will think and act as I do? What sort of a son had Cicero,
and what had Marcus Aurelius?"

He said to me one day when we were alone, "I never will marry. I have
not the conjugal virtues. Nothing would tempt me to marry, but a