The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts (1834) (14782440705)

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Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chidley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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Germany, although we may now and then seean instance of a son succeeding his father for two orthree generations, yet upon the whole the govern-ment might be styled elective. The grand principleof government in all Europe seems to have been,that if no impediment lay in the path of the heir, hesucceeded; but if absent, or any other cause hinderedhim from taking immediate possession, the peoplehad not sufficient love for his person to scruple atquietly obeying whoever seized the crown. In the history of the kingdom of Israel, as recordedin the sacred writings, we have a remarkable instanceof indifference as to which son succeeded. Upon thedeath of Ahab, Jehu wrote letters to the keepers ofthe seventy sons of Ahab, and his letters run in thisstyle— Look even out the best and meetest of yourmasters sons, and set him on his fathers throne,and fight for your masters house. He does not saycrown the eldest, but the one most proper to succeedto the vacant throne. S. BRADGATE, LEICESTERSHIRE.
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THE BIRTH-PLACE OF THE LADY JANE GREY. 312 THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. This was thy home then, gentle Jane ! This thy green solitude ;—and hereAt evening, from thy gleaming pane, Thine eye oft watchd the dappled deer,While the soft sun was in its wane, Browsing beneath the brooklet clear : —The brook runs still, the sun sets now,The deer yet browseth ; where are thou 1 In the midst of the most sequestered part of Leicester-shire, deserted and solitary, backed by rude eminences,and skirted by lowly and romantic valleys, standsBradgate, the birth-place and abode of the beauteousLady Jane Grey, the accomplished, but unfortunatedaughter of the House of Suffolk. The approach tothis spot from the little village of Cropston, is parti-cularly striking. On the left stands a group ofvenerable trees, at the extremity of which rise theremains of the once magnificent mansion of theGreys of Groby. On the right is a hill, known bythe name of the Coppice, covered with slate, but soint