Identifier: lifedeathbeingau00lewi (find matches)
Title: Life and death : being an authentic account of the deaths of one hundred celebrated men and women, with their portraits
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Lewin, Thomas Herbert, 1839-1916
Subjects: Death Portraits Celebrities
Publisher: London : Constable and Co. Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ll a moment? You want rest, and thedoctors tell you that nothing is so good for you, and yet you are alwaysmoving about! The Archbishop of Canterbury came and prayed with thedying woman morning and evening, but as she declined either to see or toforgive her eldest son, he could not administer the last Sacrament. Aboutten oclock on Sunday night the end came. The King was sleeping on thefloor at the foot of the Queens bed; the Princess Emily on a couch in the lOI o I02 A book: of life and death corner of the room. Suddenly the death rattle sounded in the Queens throat.Everybody in the room hastened to the bed. I have now got an asthma,said the Queen softly. Open the window. Then after a pause she added, Pray! The Princess Emily began to read the prayer for the dying, butbefore she had repeated ten words the Queen expired. The Princess Carolineheld a looking-glass to her mothers lips, and finding no dimness of breathingupon it cried out, Tis over! Authority: Memoirs of John, Lord Hervey.
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hKlCIiKKiCK WlI.I.lAM. KiNi; OV TkUSSIA. Father of Fkedekick the Great, and Husband ok Soi-hia Dorothea,Daughter ok George I. From an engraving by IS. Ficart. No. 48 The Death of Frederick William, first King of Prussia,and Father of Frederick the Great. Born 25thAugust 1688. Died 31st May 1740. AT his hunting seat, Wusterhausen, there is game in abundance, butlittle hunting for the King. He sits drearily within doors, listeningto the rustle of the falling leaves this autumn. In the beginning ofNovember he returned to Berlin, was worse there and again better. One nighthe attended an evening party that General Schulenberg was giving, andreturned home chilled and shivering. It was the last evening party he everattended. He is indeed now very ill: tosses about all day in and out ofbed, suffering much. His old Generals sit round his bed smoking, his wifeand children much about him, and so the weary hours roll on. He is worseat night, sleeps badly, and on his restless mind ennui sits heavi

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