Famous Morganatic Marriages
Author : Charles Kingston
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Marriages of royalty and nobility
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Author : Charles Kingston
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Marriages of royalty and nobility
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Author : Max Simon Nordau
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 1905
Category : German fiction
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Author : Charles Kingston
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 2015-07-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781331838173
Excerpt from Famous Morganatic Marriages The Great War has changed everything except human nature, and if the term "morganatic marriage" now seems anachronistic there always will be men and women to rebel against convention and to seek in experiment a panacea for restlessness and ennui. Mankind has ever been inconsistent. It has set up kings, pampered their families and pauperised their brains, applauded them when they have contracted "love matches" - going into ecstasies over their "human qualities" because a prince has married a peasant or a princess has condescended to ally herself with a "mere nobleman" - and then has dethroned them for not being divine! We may live to see the day when an English or American millionaire creates astonishment by permitting his daughter to marry a Windsor or a Romanoff, though in that case there will be many who will not long for old age because they shrink from the horrors of a bogus and spurious equality. A morganatic marriage is generally regarded as a love match, but an examination of the records does not prove them to be more successful than less romantic alliances entered into for reasons of State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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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Page : 270 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Art
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Author : Charles Kingston
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 13,5 MB
Release : 2015-03-29
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ISBN : 9781504204736
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Page : 842 pages
File Size : 30,31 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Author : Paul Anthony Jones
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2019-10-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 022664670X
Open The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities and you’ll find both a word and a day to remember, every day of the year. Each day has its own dedicated entry, on which a curious or notable event—and an equally curious or notable word—are explored. On the day on which flirting was banned in New York City, for instance, you’ll discover why to “sheep’s-eye” someone once meant to look at them amorously. On the day on which a disillusioned San Franciscan declared himself Emperor of the United States, you’ll find the word “mamamouchi,” a term for people who consider themselves more important than they truly are. And on the day on which George Frideric Handel completed his 259-page Messiah after twenty-four days of frenzied work, you’ll see why a French loanword, literally meaning “a small wooden barrow,” is used to refer to an intense period of work undertaken to meet a deadline. The English language is vast enough to supply us with a word for every occasion—and this linguistic “wunderkammer” is here to prove precisely that. So whatever date this book has found its way into your hands, there’s an entire year’s worth of linguistic curiosities waiting to be found.
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Page : 954 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 1912
Category : American periodicals
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Page : 920 pages
File Size : 23,90 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 782 pages
File Size : 46,60 MB
Release : 1864
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