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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Vol. XIX. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER VIII
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By blood it is his, were the Jacobite incapacities withdrawn.

Kintore is a cadet branch of the Keiths; "John, younger Son of William Sixth Lord Marischal," was the first Kintore.

William Sixth's younger Son, yes;--and William's Father, a man always venerable to me, had (A.D.

1593) founded Marischal College, Aberdeen,--where, for a few, in those stern granite Countries, the Diviner Pursuits are still possible (thank God and this Keith) on frugal oatmeal.

MARISCHAL-COLLEGE Keith, or FIFTH Lord Marischal, was grandfather's grandfather of our Potsdam Friend, who is tenth and last.


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