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ELIZABETH, PRINCESS PALATINE. 85
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-* Paet I. Among The Lively Pictures Whi...
the word of contemporaries . The bent of this remarkable woman's mindand her early educationinclined her to the study of scholastic
theology , than ; she herself strove with to insp the ire , same Elizabeth taste , who but during was several 1 the lifetime years
of younger Descartes his influence , stood in the way , of these endeavors . In that gay little world of the Hague , the centre of a learned
• circle , with a wide range of elevating and absorbing pursuits , life , Imt ¦ we there mig ht are fancy uneasy , would spectres flow against on smoothl which y it enoug is impossible h for Elizabeth to bolt ;
• one ' s study door , and of such the princess had enough to trouble any quiet . From her mother she neither received kindness nor sympathy .
This coldness was not only a source of pain in itself , but a bar to the use Elizabeth's good sense would have been in domestic affairs .
The shabby-genteel royal household was ill-paid and worse _governed . The beautiful and volatile widow of Frederick showed as little
aptitude in the administration of her family as her husband had done in that of a kingdom . Ambitious , lavish , and facile , she .
would never bring herself to limit her expenditure to the income allowed bthe States-General . The queen and her daughters were
often in want y of even the necessaries of life . Every year she found herself more deeply in debt , and her whole life seems to have been
one round of begging-letter writing , of extravagant hopes , and seasons of bitter disappointment . Charles I . behaved ungenerously
to his sister by keeping back her English pension , and not much . Letter to his nephewswhom he invited four years after their
father ' s death to England , , but on whom he bestowed no high office , although he might thus have propitiated his Puritan subjects . How
for bravel their y , in un sp cle ite when of this his disappointment dark days came , Rupert is matter and of Maurice history foug ; "but ht
, Charles Louis , weary of hanging about the Court with no advantage to his fortunesand foreseeing which party would ultimately prove
victoriousmuch , to his mother ' s grief and indignation , attached Mmself to , the Parliament , from whom he contrived to extract a
large pension . The shock caused to the Palatine family by this political defection was slight , nevertheless , when compared with that
occasioned them by the religious apostasy of the fourth son , Edward , "whoin 1645 abjured the Protestant faith at Paristo obtain the
recognition , of , a clandestine marriage he had contracted , with a daughter of the Duke de Nevers . The deep distress and
exasperation against Prince Edward which the queen ' s letters betray > and which all his near relatives shared , might seem beyond what
the occasion warranted ; but Protestant feeling was very strong in this familwho considered themselves in some sort confessors for
the creed y of , Calvinand held such a defection as a blot upon their escutcheon . They , were shortly to learn that a heavier misfortune
anay befall a family than a change of religion by one of its members _* Some time previously , a French officer , named D'Epiney , an
adventurer of tarnished reputation , had taken up his residence at the
Elizabeth, Princess Palatine. 85
ELIZABETH , PRINCESS PALATINE . 85
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 85, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/13/
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