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In anbtfc ^ r 11 place , be c describes Freddie ¥ fts pei ^ UaVl ^ d ta found an ^ adteimy bettfuse tt becaine hfe
rog<y , jtifert " ate ayotitig squire , in regard to liis stationr , should possess a kennel ~ of hounds . The coiarts of these ill-matched consorts were , as might be expected , quite separate , and that of the
Queen worthily distinguished by purityy learning and politeness . C ' ftuit un tethpte oil se conservoit It feu sacrh des Vest ales , Vazile des savdriSy et le siege de la poti ~ tesse . Id . 06 .
Toland , on the accession of Queen Anne , became politically obnoxious to the court of London , apparently on account of his zeal for the succession in the house of Brunswick * He now travelled to
the Continent , passing some time in-Hanover and Prussia . There , according to his Life before quoted , he- w&s frequently entertained by this Queen , to whom he is un * der&ood-to Have addressed , in
1 $ 04 k ft is Letters to S&'ena . It ¦ r r ¦ - p is WienfibtTed in Toland ' s Life , ( B . B . vi . ^ ttia * " Mr . L'Enfant heard hifii Vead a tKseuurse concerning
prejudices to Sophia Charlotte , before wht > m , At Charlottenburgh , he had a dispute with Mr . Beau . sobft ? , another of her chaplains , 4 the authority of scripture . ' "
4 n his Preface to this translation , Toland says , on his own knowledge , that Sophia Charlotte < c spoflte several languages to such a degree of perfection , as made strtifi ^ eSstaIl in doub t which might be her first . Her favourite
subj ect * werfe divinity and philosophy ; but sK ^ Wlfe n * tised to wish they cotfftfibfe' managed * vvith less inter . ^ t ^ dm ^ ms siim * md 'partiality ; S ^ lavfe ^ fej * VAl ^ tt % > oa ^ ytu
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equ ^ War to atlihe partiesieit gagjfed ^ and in never failing to treat-, w ) th extra ^ rdJnary calmness , those kf > - surd and frightful consequences witb which they used to Cnargfe each other . " Her grandson Frederic , who himself highly admired the character of Leibnitz , describes his
grandmother ' s attachment to that philosopher , who resided , with ? other learned men , by her invitation , in her court at Charlottenburgh . She is said to have remembered Leibnitz on her death *
bed , in connection with the metaphysical subjects of their conver * sations , thus consoling one of the ladies of her court who bewailed her : Ne me plaignez pas ; caY
je vats , d present ^ satisfaire ma curiosite sUr les principes des cho&es , que Leibnitz n ajamaispii mexpliquer , sur I ' espace , sur f in ** fini , sur Vetre * et sur le neanti .
Mem . p . 32 . Sophia Charlotte died at Hanow ver , on a visit to her mother the electress Sophia ^ Feb , 1 , 17 O 5 , in the 37 th year of her age , recona ^ mending , in her last moments * the learned whom she had patronised ' ^ and the arts which she iiad culti *
vated , to the protection of her b ? 6 m thcr the Elector , afterwards George the Fijst . Nor was this recommendation ill . addressed , if , as f have somewhere read , Georgfc I ., after he was raised to the British
throtie , had so much regard to his own improvement as to invite lite- * rary and-scientific men toa » weekly evening party , at hfe palace , where it was the established tfcie t 6 take *
ha special' hbtfth ^ ^ tbe king , btxi to afford font * ttte * advantage bf » feing tteatetf tfs &ti \ AW ¦; l ' (' !" - ^ Bhr-. ' T ^ iVc ?^^ % ti&ftim&M w ¦
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BooKJWo ftn . —NoFVINy 581
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 581, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/21/
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