Excerpt from Westminster Abbey, Its Architecture, History and Monuments, Vol. 2 After the Queen's death it is said that the baser passions of avarice and inins tice gained sway with him. Naturally cautious and prudent, his many years of deprivation and exile may have empha sized this tendency. Constant companion ship with a nature so generous, so unself ish, so sweet and loveable as that of his queen, may have held these unbeautiful qualities of the king in abeyance: and, in any case, they seem to have been some what ...
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Excerpt from Westminster Abbey, Its Architecture, History and Monuments, Vol. 2 After the Queen's death it is said that the baser passions of avarice and inins tice gained sway with him. Naturally cautious and prudent, his many years of deprivation and exile may have empha sized this tendency. Constant companion ship with a nature so generous, so unself ish, so sweet and loveable as that of his queen, may have held these unbeautiful qualities of the king in abeyance: and, in any case, they seem to have been some what exaggerated by historians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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