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Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell
Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell Author:Mary Berry Subtitle: Followed by a Series of Letters From Lady Russell to Her Husband, William Lord Russell; From 1672 to 1682; Together With Some Miscellaneous Letters to and From Lady Russell, to Which Are Added, Eleven Letters From Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland, to George Saville Marquis of Hallifax, in the Year 1680. Published From the Original... more »s in the Possession of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1820 Original Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Her first ideas on the subject of government we must suppose to have been all favourable to royalty, and to the unfortunate family who had been deprived of its honours. In religion, she was educated a strict Protestant, with every predilection for its doctrines, which her mother's family, professing a faith persecuted in the country to which they belonged, were likely to encourage. Lord Southampton's liberality of sentiment on matters of religion is thus commemorated by Clarendon, who, in speaking of his toleration towards Dissenters, thinks it proper to make, what must now be considered a very unnecessary apology for his friend's opinions. " He was a " man of exemplary virtue and piety, and very " regular in his devotions; yet was not gene- " rally believed by the bishops to have an " affection keen enough for the government of " the Church; because he was willing and " desirous that something more might have " been done to gratify the Presbyterians than " they thought just." (1) To her father's liberal way of thinking on these subjects, she probably owed the pure strain of truly Christian charity as well as piety (i) Continuation of the Life of ...« less