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ELIZABETH, PRINCESS PALATINE. 81
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characteristics Prince of Transy and lvania her , but chosen the three pursuit others ; they had were each her respectivel especial y
renowned as the , first scholarthe first artist , and the first lady among all and the destined princesses to be of the Europe ancestress . , The of youngest " the first , Sop gentleman hia , " the in first Europe lady , / " '
The gave second early promise Louisa of was the then high qualities a beautiful she _simiiy displayed girl in with after much life .
of the , Frenchwoman , than the German in her temperament , : for more her artistic tastesthe queen had greater sympathy than for
the severer studies of her , eldest daughter , Elizabeth . Tradition , for no so portrait beautiful is as preserved Louisa and of her Sop , reports hia , mildness thoug this h princess a of noble its as fi b gure y no , means a clear face
remarkable for the intelligence and expression , blue eyes , and a profusion of golden hair , make up our visionary picture of her into what could hardly have been rendered less than beauty .
lustre illustrious Her talents of , her and and house "were acquirements , . during She read many mi , g ht dark and t have e , years and her mind spoke of misfortune had any several fall woman , lan the
great a always guages an , made both ap umisall titude graceful ancient for solid by and science . modest modern Such and y was , and , literature the a princess sweet ; her humilit whom learnin y Descartes tempered g was as judgment y
found mother at ' s little the age court of and twenty whose leading philosop a studious hic friend retired and monitor life in her he forthwith became , While he remained at _Cj _^ ndegeesthe directed
followers her studies of in the person . old school ; and when drove the him enmity from the of nei Boetius g , hborhood and the of
letters Utrecht , which he kept Lip be an considered active correspondence for the most with part his p pup hilosop il . hical His may
confidential her essays share , , have of character been the correspondence preserved for , it but is after , chiefl his to y decease see , no from doubt the the , princess on master account destroyed ' s letters of its , easy
which afford a faithful ; renex of the inward and outward life of his pup and il counsel , that she of lai her d bare truest many as an her " wisest unsunned friend grief . " Descartes to the sympath was y a
great all his letter istle -writer sboth , but for their these own are decidedl merits , y and the our most consciousness interesting of of
the princess salutary ep The influence , chief axiom such teaching of the Cartesian must have ethics exercised is that over the the
_greatest md independently . good , and consequentl of outward y circumstances the highest happ in the iness mind , rests itself entirel , and y the
; s his to axiom be obtained the master by self makes to -cultur lead the his e , text and of il mastery the to take correspondence over not the most passions . true The : timof his teaching was
md . noble alonebut the happiest pup views , of life , and its events . Throug he wise hout man he becomes inculcates , master a noble not self onl -dependence of impressions , by which from , without he says , , y
> ut in some degree even over such real calamities as sorrow and
Elizabeth, Princess Palatine. 81
ELIZABETH , PRINCESS PALATINE . 81
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1862, page 81, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041862/page/9/
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