Identifier: sidelightsonengl00hend (find matches)
Title: Side lights on English history;
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Henderson, Ernest F. (Ernest Flagg), 1861-1928
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Publisher: London : G. Bell and sons New York, H. Holt and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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. . . . No Iwas not splenetic ; you see what plunges-the court has been at to set all rightagain. ... I am of your opinion, thatLord Marlborough is used too hardly : Ihave often scratched out passages frompapers and pamphlets sent me, beforethey were printed ; because I thoughtthem too severe. But he is certainly avile man, and has no sort of meritbeside the military. . . . Feb. 10. I saw Prince Eugene at court to-day-very plain. He is a plaguy yellow,and literally ugly besides. 7. Letter of the Electress Sophia tothe Earl of Strafford (In Macpherson,Original Papers, Vol. II. p. 347.) Jan. I 71 2. . . . Tiic good natured lord Riverstold me, he clearly perceived I was ofthe duke of Marlboroughs partv. Ianswered that if the Qjieen had madean ape her general, and that he hadgained so many battles and towns, Iwould be equally for him : and I seethat you have forgot how little I wasobliged to his wife; and as for him-self, he never spoke to me of anythingwhich liad any concern with the ad-
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Oueen Anne and the Marl boroughs r> o C vantages of this house. His expres-sion, in speaking of the Queen, wasalways, that she was a very good sortof a woman. He repeated this fre-quently, and it appeared to us too low acommendation for so great a princess. Mrs. White to Mrs. llotsoN. (InMacphersons Original Papers, Vol II.p. 271, ff.) Feb. 171 2. My lord Marlborough is very humble,visits every creature that has any credit.To General Webb he sent to know,,when he would be at home, he wouldvisit him. He sent him word, henever would be at iiome to liim ; thathe (Marlborough) had done him allthe injustice he could when he was inpower, and that now he would do himall the justice he could, which hethought he deserved; and my lordWharton told my loid treasurer, thathe played well at whist: what he couldnot make by tricks, he made up byknaves. 1712. The birth day of the Qiieen, theDuke of Marlborough was in a chairin St. Jamess Park, with the curtainsdrawn : the mob, that believed it to b

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