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Title: Ridpath's history of the world : being an account of the principal events in the career of the human race from the beginnings of civilization to the present time, comprising the development of social instititions and the story of all nations
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : Jones Brothers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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orge III., to note the govern- leaders of the party, so-called, have alwaysadopted the policy of seducing the Prince, ifpossible, from the political principles of thereigning king. This was true especially of thePrince Regent, who, in his younger years,fell under the dominion of the Whigs. He.sought the society of his fathers opponents inParliament, and was initiated by Fox andSheridan, not only into the principles andpractices of the Whig sanctum, but also intothe social excesses and vices of which thoseleaders were the easy chiefs. It was under this Regency that the inter-national crisis of 1815 was reached and brokenon the plain of Waterloo. However great theglory that came to England by that event, it 256 UNIVERSAL HISTORY.—THE MODERN WORLD. could hardly be said that the military splen-dors of the time focused near the throne. Themadness of the nominal king was heightened Castle. We may here pause for a moment tonotice the character and disposition of his suo«cessor, George IV.
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by his blindness, and on the 29th of January,1820, he passed away, being then in the eighty-second year of his age, and the sixtieth ofhis reign. His body was laid away withfuneral pomp iii the royal vaults at Windsor (Jeorge Augustus Frederick, Prince of Wales,who now accede<l to the throne, with the titleof George IV., was the first of the nine sonaof George III. From his birth he had beennoted for his comeliness of person. He had GREAT BRITAIN.—LAST TWO HANOVERIANS. 257 an ease of carriage and a grace of mannerwhich gained for him at an early age the so-briquet of the Gentleman George; but longbefore he reached his majority it was known,not only to England, Ijut to all Europe, thatthe veneering of accomplishments which in-cased the Heir Apparent was only a trans-parent gloss through which all manner ofvices and excesses played hide-a..d-go-seekwithin. The story of the Princes life can notbe repeated on the pages of respectable litera-ture. He plunged at will into the whirl ofa

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