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84 EUZABETH, PRINCESS PALATINE.
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steadily refused to yield the point , and the Polish Diet being equally firmafter three years of negotiations the match was finally broken
, off . Elizabeth , who had meanwhile tranquilly pursued her studies , always expressing displeasure at the respect with which her family
treated her in consideration of her prospects , showed no small satisfaction when the matter was thus decided , and proclaimed her
fixed resolution never to encourage another suitor , but to devote her future life to her favorite pursuits . Had the bachelor princes of
Euro _23 e foreseen what great inheritance Elizabeth Stuart's eldest daughter would have conveyed to her _descendants , her learned leisure
would hardly have been so uninterrupted ; but no prophet of those days could foretell the events which made the son of her sister
Sophia heir to the British crown . In her determination and her studies Elizabeth was by no means
solitary among her countrywomen . For the most part , history shows us that while men impress a special stamp upon their age _,,
the general character of women is determined by the popularopinion of their time and country . Soduring the preceding "
, century , that of the Reformation , when theologians held thafc woman had not been , equally with man , made after the image of
their Maker , and taught her inferiority in every _resjDect as an article of faith , the culture , both intellectual and moral , of women was at
its lowest ebb in Holland and Germany . The next century was better disposed to do them justice ; tlie scholars of the day invited
feminine sympathy in their pursuits , and the question , whether the two sexes might not with advantage co-operate in literature and
science , was matter of _j _3 ublic debate in the universities . Nor were the other 1 the sex hi slow her orders to obey of the societ challenge what . There be fairl arose , called chiefly a among
gy , may y learned class ; for the most part women of vigorous intellect , of manly mindgreat simplicity of characterdeep religious feelingv
, , and _thoroughly imbued with the stern Protestantism of the age . The Scriptures in Hebrew and Greek were their daily study ; they
were treated with great courtesy by the learned , who received them as pupils , as intellectual friends and companions . To this class
several personal friends of Elizabeth belonged . Such were Anna Fischer , Susanna de Baerle , whose Latin verses the world has long
forgotten , though she deserves to be remembered as the mother of Christian Huygensthe inventor of the _23 endulumand the discoverer
of the rings of Saturn , . Foremost among these was , the once famous Anna Schurmaun , whom the princess proposed to herself as a model ,
and with whose _encyclopaediac acquirements she might well be dazzled . To profound learning * Anna Schurmaun united unusual
skill in many elegant accomplishments ; she was versed in thelanguages both of the east and west . Several of her writingsverse
and prose , in Hebrew , Greek , Latin , and French , are extant , ; but for the beauty of her wood carvings , her flower painting" , and
embroidery , in which the needle vied with the pencil , we must take
84 Euzabeth, Princess Palatine.
84 EUZABETH , PRINCESS PALATINE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/12/
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