Excerpt from The Royal StewartsIn history proper, the lives even of sovereigns can be recorded only in a somewhat broken, interrupted, and fractional form. Even in their case, therefore, biography becomes a kind of necessary complement to history. While, however, the primary purpose of the present volume is biographical, an attempt has been made to trace the in¿uence of the idiosyncrasies of the several sovereigns on contemporary and sub seque...
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