. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. grew out of the qualities of hismind. It was jilain, strong, terse, con-densed, concise; sometimes impassion-ed, still always severe. He noticed alsothe unmixed devotion of his life topolitical duties, of his zealous occupa-tion in serious emploj-ment, seemingto have no recreation but the pleasureof conversation with his friends, whilehe celelirated the charms of that con-versational talent, and the delight ofits possessor to exercise it, particularlyin company with the young. Theeulogy ended with a
. Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America. With biographies. grew out of the qualities of hismind. It was jilain, strong, terse, con-densed, concise; sometimes impassion-ed, still always severe. He noticed alsothe unmixed devotion of his life topolitical duties, of his zealous occupa-tion in serious emploj-ment, seemingto have no recreation but the pleasureof conversation with his friends, whilehe celelirated the charms of that con-versational talent, and the delight ofits possessor to exercise it, particularlyin company with the young. Theeulogy ended with a tribute to theunspotted integrity and unimpeachedhonor of the man and with this generous eu-logy of his high-toned public careeris the tenor of the great senatorsprivate life. His liberal hospital-ity and heartfelt enjoyment of thebeauties of nature at his seat. FortHill, suiTOunded by his family, in themountain region of his native State, hiskindness to his friends and dependents,his fondness for agriculture, all stanq)the man of genuine simplicity of \VILLIAM I., EMPEROR OF GERMANY. FREDERICK WILLIAM LOUIS,Emperor of Germany and Kingof Prussia, second sou of FrederickWilliam III., and biotbei- of FrederickWilliam IV., King of Prussia, wasLorn on the 22d of Marcli, 1797. Hewas educated as a soldier, and at theage of seventeen took part in the cam-paigns against France, terminating inthe overthrow of Napoleon at Water-loo, in 1815. In 1829, he was marriedto Marie Louise Augusta Catherine,daughter of Charles Frederick, GrandDuke of Saxe Weimar. On the acces-sion to the throne of his brother, in1840, he was made lieutenant orviceroy of the province of Germany was agitated by thedemocratic movement following uponthe Paris Revolution of 1848, he was,in March of that year, appointed gov-ernor-general of the Rhine Provinces;but, before entering upon this duty,having encountered a strong popularopposition from the part which hebore in the re
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