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THE STORY OF AK INDIAN PRINCESS. 235
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XXXVI—THE STORY OF AJST INDIAN PRINCESS.
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* The press has teemed of late years wit...
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Dating Of Its Foundation Its Origin Alik...
Elector Joachim II . having always been made aware by her appearance when any of his family were about to die , though it was not
till after the death of his successor John George , when as we have seenher true history had been lost sight of , that her visits began
to be , generally _regarded as the forerunner of death , as from that time forward they have been ordinarily held to be- Even thus
accepted , still it is no vengeful or crime-stained shade that affords such a prognostication to the princely family , and they who do not fear
death , certainly need not fear the White Lady of Berlin , now identified with the gentle Perchta of Rosenburg , the faithfullest of wives ,
the tenderest of mothers , and the most assiduous of guardian spirits . [ Note . —It is only fair to add that there have been sceptics who
have denied the very existence of the White Lady . In many places a widow is designated by the Low German word
Witt ~ frau , a very near approach to Weisse-frau or White Lady , instead of _TV-itt-iveitself a contraction of Witt-ioyf , for white was
the universal mourning , colour worn by widows , so that it might therefore have been said anywhere where a husband was dying ,
" There will soon be a White Lady here ; " and in 1783 , Professor Eberhardin a paper on the subject in the " Berliner
Monafc-, schrift , " grounded on this the assertion that the Legend of the White Lady was only a myth that had been originated in order to
account for this saying . ] Asterisk .
The Story Of Ak Indian Princess. 235
THE STORY OF AK INDIAN PRINCESS . 235
Xxxvi—The Story Of Ajst Indian Princess.
XXXVI—THE STORY OF _AJST INDIAN PRINCESS .
* The Press Has Teemed Of Late Years Wit...
* The press has teemed of late years with biographies of women great or good ; but these have all been growths of the Western
world , a . nd the women of the East , though to depict their beauties the artist lavishes his brightest tints , and to tell of their loves and
their hatreds the j ) oet tunes his most thrilling lays , have yefc rarely indeed furnished a subject for the plain and . simple prose of the
truth-loving biographer , since they have been mostly remarkable rather for the strength of their passions , than the power of their
intellects , and have owed their influence more to external and fleeting charms of person , than to the enduring force of moral
character . Even among a people where , as hi the case of the Mahrattas , great influence has always , at least indirectly , been
exercised by ladies on the councils of the Government , and many of the female relatives of rulers have on occasion , shown , great
energy and courage , these qualities have almost invariably lost their worth by being employed for unworthy ends , and
accompanied by an utter disregard for morality ; few women of rank in any country or epoch affording examples of such shameless
licentiousness as are to be found in . the records of these Eastern Princesses , among whom , however , one brilliant exception whines
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1863, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061863/page/19/
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