. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ance, and a persecutingspirit on the part of the clergy; the repression of all public enter-tainments and amusements, even the most innocent, as well as ofthe free expression of opinion, whether in speech or Avriting. Under Christians son and successor, Frederick V. (1746-1766),the painfully repressed reform movement asserted itself was, without possessing pre-eminent abilities, a moderate,well-meaning, conscientious man, who tried to follow the course ofenlightened absolutism advo
. A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . ance, and a persecutingspirit on the part of the clergy; the repression of all public enter-tainments and amusements, even the most innocent, as well as ofthe free expression of opinion, whether in speech or Avriting. Under Christians son and successor, Frederick V. (1746-1766),the painfully repressed reform movement asserted itself was, without possessing pre-eminent abilities, a moderate,well-meaning, conscientious man, who tried to follow the course ofenlightened absolutism advocated by Voltaire and pursued by Fred-erick II. He abolished serfdom in all the royal demesnes, patronizedevery sort of material and intellectual industry among his people,founded academies and poor-houses, and lowered the taxes. Hemade a Hanoverian, Count Johann Hartwig von Bernstoi-ff, his primeminister. The coarse temperament of the Danes Bernstorff tried tomollify by attracting German scholars and poets to the capital. Inthis way he brought Klopstock to Copenhagen, where he resided. %^r;^4-y~£iiuJ- ^ t^A^i^ti i /^*t*:^<^v/*<*C • y t yi^^y<^T-£/i v ^illvcruKK^l- From William Hogarths series cFrom a copper-plate engraving Htetory of Alt Xalion^, Vol. A/l., parie SI.
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