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On November 6, 1817, died the Princess Charlotte, only child of the
Prince Regent, and heir to the crown of England. Her short life had
hardly been a happy one. By nature impulsive, capricious, and
vehement, she had always longed for liberty; and she had never
possessed it. She had been brought up among violent family
quarrels, had been early separated from her disreputable and
eccentric mother, and handed over to the care of her disreputable
and selfish father. When she was seventeen, he decided to marry her
off to the Prince of Orange; she, at first, acquiesced; but,
suddenly falling in love with Prince Augustus of Prussia, she
determined to break off the engagement. This was not her first love
affair, for she had previously carried on a clandestine
correspondence with a Captain Hess. Prince Augustus was already
married, morganatically, but she did not know it, and he did not
tell her. While she was spinning out the negotiations with the
Prince of Orange, the allied sovereign - it was June, 1814 -
arrived in London to celebrate their victory. Among them, in the
suite of the Emperor of Russia, was the young and handsome Prince
Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. ...] Reprint of the biography of Queen
Victoria, originally published in 1921.
The purpose of this book is to give, not only a portrait and a
description of the birds, but a summing up of the beneficial and
injurious habits of each, gained from the highest authorities
obtainable. The book is intended for those who long to know birds
intimately and intelligently, and wish to belong to the great army
of bird-students who are "doing their bit" to preserve the
bird-life of our country.
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second is printed from a
Manuscript of the late Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Among the
papers found at Strawberry Hill, after the death of Lord Orford,
was the following Memorandum, wrapped in an envelope, on which was
written, "Not to be opened till after my Will." Opening the box, it
was found to contain a number of manuscript volumes and other
papers, among which were these Memoirs.
We all live a double life: the external life which the world sees,
and the internal life of hopes and fears, joys and griefs,
temptations and sins, which the world sees not, and of which it
knows but little. None lead this double life more emphatically than
those who are seated upon thrones. Though this historic sketch
contains allusions to all the most important events in the reign of
Louis XIV., it has been the main object of the writer to develop
the inner life of the palace; to lead the reader into the interior
of the Louvre, the Tuileries, Versailles, and Marly, and to exhibit
the monarch as a man, in the details of domestic privacy.
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second is printed from a
Manuscript of the late Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Among the
papers found at Strawberry Hill, after the death of Lord Orford,
was the following Memorandum, wrapped in an envelope, on which was
written, "Not to be opened till after my Will." Opening the box, it
was found to contain a number of manuscript volumes and other
papers, among which were these Memoirs.
Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Second is printed from a
Manuscript of the late Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford. Among the
papers found at Strawberry Hill, after the death of Lord Orford,
was the following Memorandum, wrapped in an envelope, on which was
written, "Not to be opened till after my Will." Opening the box, it
was found to contain a number of manuscript volumes and other
papers, among which were these Memoirs.
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