ISBN: 1154163911

[EAN: 9781154163919], Neubuch, WILLIAM OLDYS,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned … More...

[EAN: 9781154163919], Neubuch, WILLIAM OLDYS,SUBJECTS, This item is printed on demand. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 Excerpt: . . . the poets tell us, that Jupiter, when he was to beget Hercules, was necessitated to make a night three times longer than the ordinary; so difficult was it, even for the father of the Gods, to beget an hero: but our invincible hero Lewis le Grand, required a longer time to be gotten than Hercules, and twenty-three years was little enough time to produce our august monarch. What a shame was it for Cardinal Richelieu to throw away so much pains to no purpose And how easy had it been to have made the king a father, and the queen a mother, in the twentieth part of that time, if he had but understood the new English way of getting and bearing children But, it seems, the art of imposing infant princes was not then brought to that perfection, it has been of late; and Anne of Austria was not so good a proficient in the trade, as Mary of Modena. What needed the former have made herself the talk of all France, for her intrigues with her two cardinals It had been the easiest thing in the world to make her a mother, without the trouble of one single throw. A close balister about the bed, and a convenient passage at the head of it, with a wary midwife, and one ortwo more trusty confidents, might have done just as well. But the curse of all was, our Lewis the Thirteenth was neither, to be imposed upon, in such an affair, nor could be brought intp the design himself; his malice to his brother, the next heir, though at war with him, came not up to that length, as to cheat him of the throne. And, though Lewis the Thirteenth had been capable of so great a weakness, or rather madness, his brother Monsieur was too much concerned, to let the queen impose upon him one to exclude him from the crown. During the queens bigness, Monsieur had his constant spies about her, te watc. . ., [PU: General Books, LLC]<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 496 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=28mm, Gew.=721gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert The book has no illustrati… More...

Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 496 Seiten, L=152mm, B=229mm, H=28mm, Gew.=721gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subtitle: Or, a Collection of Scarce, Curious, and Entertaining Pamphlets and Tracts, as Well in Manuscript as in Print, Found in the Late Earl of Oxford's Library; Interspersed With Historical, Political, and Critical Notes; Volume: 9; Original Publisher: Printed for R. Dutton; Publication date: 1810; Subjects: Great Britain; Art / Graphic Arts; Art / Commercial / Advertising; History / Europe / Great Britain; Language Arts<