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80 ELIZABETH, PRINCESS PALATINE.
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XV.—ELIZABETH, PRINCESS PALATINE.
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-* PAET I. Among the lively pictures whi...
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_ Chapter I. That Tlie Realities Of Life...
niary Iielp for any one case recorded , but rather to enlist general sympathy to prevent similar trials ; she will , howeverthankfully
, receive any offers of employment calculated to meet the demand presented . ]
( To he continued ?)
80 Elizabeth, Princess Palatine.
80 ELIZABETH , PRINCESS PALATINE .
Xv.—Elizabeth, Princess Palatine.
XV . —ELIZABETH , PRINCESS _PALATINE .
-* Paet I. Among The Lively Pictures Whi...
- * PAET I . Among the lively pictures which are scattered through the letters
of Sorbiere , one of the liveliest is the bird ' s-eye view lie gives his readers of the Dutch retreat of Descartes , and his visit to him
therein 1642 . Philosophy could not have found a more charming " solitude , we think , as we read of the little castle at Cyndegeest , with
its garden and orchards ; and beyond , the rich Netherland meadows , broken by clumps of treesabove which many a tower and spire
, xises from the level _landscajDe . Past the castle flows the old Rhine , a , silent highway from Cyndegeest into the outer world . Descartes
takes a boat and visits Utrecht and half a dozen other towns in one day . And moreover , beyond those woods on the horizon lies the
Hague , within an easy walk from- Cyndegeest , past Dutch _countryhouses white and glittering * , past their trim Dutch gardensgay
, , just as they are in our own time , with every _sjoecies of bulbous floriculture . Then the Hague itself—it must indeed be a handsome
town to make the Frenchman forget , his Paris so far as to pronounce it inferior to no capital in Europe . Such a swarming , "busy
crowd , so much picturesque variety of costume on the quays and in the market-place ; and at this time" he tells us" the Hague is
,, proud with the state of three courts . " [ First , the military court of the Prince of Orange , with its two thousand nobles and their
retainers , riding through the leafy avenues in the glory of their buffalo-skin waistcoatstheir high bootslong swordsand
orangecolored scarfs . Next , , the court of the States , -General ; , grave Dutch gentlemen , -wearing the suits of black velvet , the broad collars , and
square beards , which Netherland art has made familiar to our eyes . " And" adds Sorbiere" we may well consider the court of the
Queen , of Bohemia and , her daughters to be that of the muses and the graces , whither the beau monde flocks from all parts to pay
homage to the talents , the virtues , and beauty of the princesses . " One of the sisters then living with , their widowed mother at the
Hague , while the five brothers were trying to push their fortunes in the world , is only remembered through her melancholy death , which
happened in the midst of the rejoicings on her marriage with the
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/8/
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