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MARGARET OJ? NORWAY. 85
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XIV.—MARGARET OF NOBWAY.
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-a*«-> • It was now the year 1396, and t...
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has meetings been , won and many over the other reli activ ious e workin indifference g schemes of the . A last great century victory , a
great victory remains to he g won over the physical indifference which degrades the human frame . Here is a small beginning in the
in who Ladies their read ' Sanitary separate this paper Association locality with whether any which degree it may be of in interest become the murk will a great y endeavor atmosp work here , if each all of
the town , or in the pleasant , green places of the country , to carry out its plans , to communicate with those h who have laid and its
foundaful tion effort , and to towards link themselves the enforcement to it throug of the some laws practical of health success by our - English people .
B . K . P .
Margaret Oj? Norway. 85
MARGARET OJ ? NORWAY . 85
Xiv.—Margaret Of Nobway.
XIV . —MARGARET OF NOBWAY . BY _AMELIA B . EDWAEDS . ( Concluded from , our last . )
-A*«-> • It Was Now The Year 1396, And T...
-a *« _- > It was now the year 1396 , and the great troubles which had
attended the annexation of Norway and the conquest of Sweden , were ended at last . Many agencies had been at work . Many
changes were at hand . The present was peace , and the future promised fairly . To perpetuate that peace , to assure that future , to
crown all her victories , and , by one great and signal achievement , to lace her dominions on a footing with those of her more civilized
long and p powerful been the nei meditated ghbours , scheme became ) of now Queen the imme Margaret diate ' s aim life . ( as it had
Obeyed in "Norway and Sweden , beloved in Denmark , and standcountries ing on terms she of felt friendshi that p she with mi the ht influential at length classes draw together of all three the
threads of , the web which she had g all this time been weaving , and that nowif evershould be accomplished the great project towards
which her , policy , had for bo many years been tending . This project was the perpetual union of her own three crowns . Circumstance
had placed them all upon one brow , and , unless provided against by an express treaty , circumstance might at any time distribute
them afresh . But Margaret was resolved this should not be . To build a igantic empire and an undying fame was not enough
for an up ambition g such as hers . She must bequeath that empire in its entiretto a race of . unborn kings ; she must influence not
alone the present y but the future ; she must reign here and hereafter . Such were her plans . She had laid them long , and she
had laid them well , and the result was soon to come . She began by sending for Eric of Pomerania , and accustoming
him to the routine of court life . More than seven years had gone
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/13/
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