General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . by jealousies on thepart of the Poles, who were never reconciled tothe presence of Saxon troops in their country ;and several confederacies were formed for theprotection of the public liberty. At length thecivil divisions were terminated, and the re-mainder of the reign passed in peace. Augus-tus chiefly resided in his electoral states, inwhich he was much beloved. He introduced,an improved code of laws, founded sever
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . by jealousies on thepart of the Poles, who were never reconciled tothe presence of Saxon troops in their country ;and several confederacies were formed for theprotection of the public liberty. At length thecivil divisions were terminated, and the re-mainder of the reign passed in peace. Augus-tus chiefly resided in his electoral states, inwhich he was much beloved. He introduced,an improved code of laws, founded several pro-fessorships and a college for educating the no-bility at Dresden, and was the author of other-useful and spleDdid establishments. Thoughhe had himself conformed to the Romish reli-gion, he protected the Polish protestants from-persecution. His own consort continued in theprofession of the reformed religion till herdeath, whence she was never crowned queenof Poland. In 1733 Augustus undertook ajourney in the winter to Warsaw, whither hehad convoked a diet. This exertion so muchincreased a disorder of his thigh to which hehad been sonic time subject, that a gangrene. /RIDERICVS WILHELMV5 Elector at ,« iLaadtburm, \3orm/uz,SuluL, China, ct ^AlentmjTi ncc won cStttini ctCromcranuz (mdiudm.
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