Volume IV. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link book Volume IV. (of XXI.) 6/26 He has since been soldiering about, in a loose way, governing Innspruck, fighting the Turks. But, lately, his elder Brother died childless (year 1716); and left him Kurfurst of the Pfalz. His fair Radzivil is dead long ago; she, and a successor, or it may be two. Except one Daughter, whom the fair Radzivil left him, he has no children; and in these times, I think, lives with a third Wife, of the LEFT-HAND kind. This new KUR-PFALZ (Elector-Palatine) Karl Philip is by genealogy--who, thinks the reader? |