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. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...she could have meant by taking Lafayette's part, and silencing the other ladies because they did not like him. When she heard how it was, the Queen was satisfied; but we, far from being satisfied, may learn from this how difficult it must have been to help the royal family and court, while they thought and ...
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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. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...she could have meant by taking Lafayette's part, and silencing the other ladies because they did not like him. When she heard how it was, the Queen was satisfied; but we, far from being satisfied, may learn from this how difficult it must have been to help the royal family and court, while they thought and spoke of the best men in the nation in such a way as this. In truth, there were miserable prejudices and insults on both sides; and at this distance of time, Lafayette, with his love of freedom and his good-will towards all the sufferers of both parties, rises to our view from among them all as a sunny hill-top above the fogs of an unwholesome marsh. The next event in the royal famity was the departure of the old Princesses. They got away in February; and though stopped in some places on their journey, crossed the frontiers in safety. They might probably have remained secure enough in Paris; and their departure was not on their own account, so much as that of the King. He could not have attempted to fly while his aged aunts remained in the midst of the troubles. When they were disposed of, he felt himself more free to go or stay. The old ladies earnestly entreated the sweet Princess Elizabeth to go with them, representing to her how happy she might be at Rome in the exercise of the religion to which she was devoted. But her religion taught her that her duty lay, not where she could say her prayers with the most ease and security, but where she could give the most help and consolation. She refused ease and safety, and declared her intention of remaining with her brother's family to the end--whatever that end might be. The Queen immediately (that is, in March) began her preparations for departure. Remembering how easily they might have got away...
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Small 8vo, pp. 191, [1]. Bound in little rubbed original blindstamped red cloth. These two stories were first issued in The Playfellow in 1841. Martineau (1802-76) was born in Norwich, UK. After the family firm failed in 1829, and unable to teach because of deafness, Martineau turned to writing to support herself. She was an early popularizer of the theories of Locke and Hartley and argued that the discrepancy between men and women was due to differences in educational opportunities. Her reputation as a writer was based principally on her original popularizing serial Illustrations of Political Economy, 1832/3, brought celebrity. In this series...she defined and illustrated, in rather stilted story form, the unfolding principals of Laissez-faire capitalism and the concepts of progress and opportunity based upon ability rather than ancestry. These popular works were originally written as separate booklets and were directed specifically at the working class of England[Schleuter p. 321]. She travelled to America in 1837.
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Very good. Binding solid. Light wear to spine ends, corners. Pencilled owner name, no other markings. 298 p. Includes illustrations. Gray cloth; red/black illustrated cover Edited by Sarah Cone Bryant