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.ELIZABETH, PRINCESS PALATINE. 87
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reputation Sweden , a for person learning far more , opene desirous d Descartes a correspondence to achieve The , than throug to h her deserve Chamet first a ,
thoug the French to ht an on receiving ambassador lum for this Elizabeth , with new honor in the was . Swedish , that it p Court hilosop might . open For 's two the
year way s he strove asy to inspire Christina with something of his affectionate admiration for the princess , never imagining in his honestto infect the vain and
hearted zeal that these praises only served not egotistical onlrefused queen with to acknowled an intense jealous her rival dislike ' s superiorit of her . y , Christina but she ge
could h y ardly endure to hear her name mentioned ; and when Elizabeth course of , the encouraged following by year Descartes to secure , wrote the intervention to the queen of Sweden in the she
on her brother ' s behalf in the negotiations then pending , passed previousl over y promised the letter : the in Prince haughty Elector silence her , and support , thoug , h made she had no
attemp The t treat to _prociire of West an arr hali angement a 1648 more annexed favorable the _ujxper to him Palatinat . e to Bavariabut y restored p the , lower , to Charles Louiswho was thus
restored to , the dignity of Prince of the Empire . , It was hardly expected that the Prince Elector would in be the willing school to resi of gn more
than half his claims , but long training adversity had Decemb prepared er he wrote him from to accept London the assentin terms of to this the conditions treaty ; and which in g
recalled himafter an exile of , thirty years , to the land of his forefathers * was overclouded . , But by this the gleam gloom of of prosperity the _execiition for the of Palatine Charle Charles famil Louis I . in y
broug the from ensuin Berlin ht the g to dreadful month the . Hague tidings Immedi where to at his ely the mother after queen this , and softened event Elizabeth , by her hastened s
over-, , whelming the mourned blow over fell sorrow so the heavil , great received as traged to her throw y with of their her open race on arms a , and sick . on Together bed the . princess On they this y
occasion Descartes addresses a letter , almost paternal in its sympath consoling closes y , with to his considerations these pupil , noble which which words , after such — recalling " The a calamity main all the difference would fortify permit ing between , and he
, that truly the great latter , and are mean ruled or common entirel souls by , their it seems emotions to me , is but in when this : _,
former sorrows the far more intellect keenl liolds y felt her than y by the nevertheless many , come and , upon compels the sway ,
sorrow , itself to serve the mind by purifying and ennobling it . Such account littlof tlie death of the body while they consider the
e immortality them to look of upon the the soul darke , and st the events contemp of this lation life of as eternity we behold brings the
scenes Little of more a traged than y . " a _afterwardsElizabeth had to mourn the
death of thewriter year la the autumn , of 1649 Descartes , at the , _, ,
.Elizabeth, Princess Palatine. 87
. ELIZABETH , PRINCESS PALATINE . 87
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 87, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/15/
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