On this page
-
Text (1)
-
NOTICES OF BOOKS* 59
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
, The Thomas History Carl Of Yle Frederi...
which , appear to abound in this history , we will gladly adopt the soubri In the quet two . volumes which we have on hand , Friedrich Wilhelm
heads and Feekin of the may household be said whose to be history hero and is here heroine related , at . least They they had are a
large two onl famil Fritz y of and sons Wilhemina and daughters and , of in whom accordance we have with concern the with
bioy , , grap event hical on which tendency he bestows of Mr . Carl his y attention le ' s imagination is regarded , every simp European ly as it
, aifected the fortunes or impressed the natures of this domestic quartet . A very clever , and yet a very average domestic quartet the it
feminine especiall proves to y be the mother ; the father characteristics and , so children very manl pulling of y , sex the ( in so two vain very ladies ) marked against so ; the amusing father men ly , , ;
father sincerely anxious to do right , but invariably bent on his own quished particular and view that of temporaril right ; wholl by y hysterics impersuadable and dangerous , and onl sickness y
vanof Feekin , who is perfectly well y , aware of the advantages of taking , to her bed . had Friedrich
Excellent and note-worthy qualities of character "Wilhelm , chiefly comprised in , or hanging black closely side by , a certain in hard
uprihtness of soulof which the reverse or lay a terrible and g rigid the adherence , to any to preconceived softer human line hearts of conduct . He , however was the consequences
great of money practical , land , economi and population st of his with century the , manag most ing admirable all his exactness resources Friedrich funeral
and success . The morrow after his father ' s , ( I ., ) , to he the discharged lowest all the -in-waiting court peop and le , reduced from the his hi household ghest goldstick at once down to
page , the " lowest footing of the indispensable . " "In the like ruthless humour he goes over his pension fourth list ; to strikes the three- bone fourths In of that like
hold humour away , and reduces he other goes the over remaining every department shears every of thing his administrative very down , here . , by house the - expenses ;
hundred , thalers , there by the ten , willing even to save half a thaler . He goes over all this three several times ; his papers , the three
successive lists he used on that occasion , have been printed . Pie has atisfied himself in about two months , what the effective
s minimum is , and leaves it so . Reduced to below the fifth of what it was : 55000 thalers instead of 276 , 000 . "
Our readers , will find few pages more interesting than those which follow this extract , if , like us int , they love collateral to trace bran the che one of supreme justice
virtue and economy of truth . , They carried convey out a o lesson as potent for every s head of householdas for the royal master of Prussia . How few are
every , live willin and g to move recognise and have the inexorable our being , , laws invisible as real laws as amidst the comp which licated we which
machinery of any factory , and in accordance with we
Notices Of Books* 59
NOTICES OF BOOKS * 59
-
-
Citation
-
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 59, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/59/
-