Sunday, July 20, 2008

Hiatus Interruptus

So the other day I was perusing the introduction to Project Gutenberg's version of Leibniz's Theodicy and I came across this line:

At the point of Louis XIV's highest success, the Protestant princes had no hope but in Catholic Austria, and Austria was distracted by Turkish pressure in the rear.
Was I wrong to burst out laughing? Discuss.


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