text:  Frederick the younger of these Dioscouri choked himself at last with the eternal chewing of moral and religious absurdities which in his uncomfortable passage through life he had collected together from all quarters and was eager to hawk about with the solemn air of a preacher to every body: he accordingly betook himself as a last refuge to Catholicism and drew after him as a companion to his own views a man of very fair but falsely overwrought talent--Adam Mueller