This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... QUEEN CAROLINE, GREAT GRANDMOTHER OF HIS GRACIOUS MAJESTY, KING GEORGE THE FOURTH. This distinguished Princess was the friend of Sir Isaac Newton, and we feel that her name, and a memoir of her great virtues and talents, from unquestionable authority and original papers, seems just, and very interesting in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... QUEEN CAROLINE, GREAT GRANDMOTHER OF HIS GRACIOUS MAJESTY, KING GEORGE THE FOURTH. This distinguished Princess was the friend of Sir Isaac Newton, and we feel that her name, and a memoir of her great virtues and talents, from unquestionable authority and original papers, seems just, and very interesting in this small volume of biography, which may be circulated for the improvement of many who have neither time nor means to consult larger works. The following lines we have extracted from Lord Clarendon's History of England. "On the 20th of November, 1737, Queen Caroline died, deeply regretted. "She was a Princess of great merit and goodness, with uncommon talents and penetration of mind, and extensive generosity of disposition; she was a pattern of conjugal fidelity, affection, and prudence. She was also the kind and generous patroness of learning and learned men, and very pious in the performance of all her religious duties." See Lord Clarendon's History in Quarto. We next find very ample memoirs of this most amiable and superior Queen in the History of Sir Robert Walpole, by the Rev. Archdeacon Coxe, in three volumes. He informs us in his Preface, that he owed great obligations to many friends who favoured him with ample store of original papers and letters for full and true information: he particularly mentions the following character of the distinguished Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, " To my noble friend the Earl of Hardwicke I gratefully acknowledge great obligations for the use of his valuable collection: from it I have been supplied with various papers, letters, memorandums and narratives of his grandfather the Lord Chancellor, and of the late Earl of Hardwicke; also letters from the Duke of Newcastle, and the confidential correspondence...
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