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Title: Roundabout papers (From the Cornhill magazine) To which is added, The second funeral of Napoleon; The four Georges; The English humorists of the eighteenth century; Critical reviews and selections (from Punch)
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
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Publisher: New York, Caxton publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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uite danger-ous in their powers of fascination. He kept his sentimentali-ties for his Germans and his queen. With us English, henever chose to be familiar. He has been accused of avarice,yet he did not give much money, and did not leave much be-hind him. He did not love the fine arts, but he did not pre-tend to love them. He was no more a hypocrite about religionthan his father. He judged men by a low standard ; yet, withsuch men as were near him, was he wrong in judging as he did ?He readily detected lying and flattery, and liars and flat-terers were perforce his companions. Had he been moreof a dupe he might have been more amiable. A dismalexperience made him cynical. No boon was it to him tobe clear-sighted, and see only selfishness and flattery roundabout him. What could Walpole tell him about his Lords andCommons, but that they were all venal ? Did not his clergy,his courtiers, bring him the same story ? Dealing with menand women in his rude, skeptical way, he came to doubt about
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AVE, C-^SAR. GEORGE THE SECOND. ^oi honor, male and female, about patriotism, about religion. Heis wild, but he fights like a man, George I., the taciturn, saidof his son and successor. Courage George II. certainly had.The Electoral Prince, at the head of his fathers contingent,had approved himself a good and brave soldier under Eugeneand Marlborough. At Oudenarde he specially distinguishedhimself. At Malplaquet the other claimant to the Englishthrone won but little honor. There was always a questionabout Jamess courage. Neither then in Flanders, nor after-wards in his own ancient kingdom of Scotland, did the lucklessPretender show much resolution. But dapper little George hada famous tough spirit of his own, and fought likft a Trojan.He called out his brother of Prussia, with sword and pistol \and I wish, for the interest of romancers in general, that thatfamous duel could have taken place. The two sovereignshated each other with all their might; their seconds were ap-pointed ; the p

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