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Title: Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff), 1842-1900 Mann, James Saumarez, 1851-
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ClIILDREX IX l^iSO, BV GEOKGE CEUIKSIIAXK.(*\<ketcUcs hit lio:, hy Charks Dickens, tol. I.) believing that the offer was made to silence him, was not wellpleased, and records that a certain Lord— the hero of MadameGrisi —had already had the offer of the Yice-Chamberlainship,but refused, saying, Thank God, my character is too bad.Whatever may be the true explanation of the offer, there is nodoubt that a cliange had come. Lord Melbourne, in a fit oftemper, cried out This damned morality will ruin everything ;but at a fpiieter time he would probably have acknowledged SOCIAL LIFE. 321 18461 that the queens influence was as good for him as hisknowledge of the world Avas useful to her.
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aUEEN ADELAIDE, BY SIP. \V. BEECIIEV, It.A.(Bij permission of the Elder ISrethren, Trinity House.) Greville, describing the Court of 1838, says it is not gay,there is none of the sociability of a country house, littletrouble, little etiquette, but very little resource or amusement.273 322 THE NEW SPIRIT AND THE NEW PATHS. 11832-1846 After the days of George IV. the pomp of the coronation andtlie display at Court entertainments greatly diminished. Thecoronation of George lY. cost £243,000, of William IV. £4.5,000,of Victoria £7(),()()0. Williams queen was so anxious that noexpense should he incurred on her account, that she would notpermit citlicr the purchase or hire of a crown from Rundells forher, but oi-dercd that it should be composed of her own jewels,and made up at her own expense. At George IV.s coronationRundells charge for the loan of jewels was £16,000.^ The last of the birthday balls, which recur so frequentlj^ ineighteenth-century journals, was given on the Princess Ro

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