Opis: The Young Duke - Beaconsfield Earl of

Excerpt from The Young Duke: 'A Moral Tale, Though Gay', Count Alarcos: A Tragedy

George Augustus Frederick, Duke of St. James, completed his twenty-first year, an event which created almost as great a sensation among tho aristocracy of England as the Norman Conquest. A minority of twenty years had converted a family always amongst the wealthiest of Great Britain into one of the richest in Europe. Tho Duke of St. James possessed estates in tho north and in tho west of England, besides a whole province in Ireland. In London there were a very handsome square and several streets, all made of bricks, - which brought him in yearly more cash than all tho palaces of Vicenza arc worth in fee-simple, with those of tho Grand Canal of Venice to boot. As if this were not enough, he was an hereditary patron of internal navigation; and although perhaps in his two palaces, there castles, four halls, and lodges ad libitum, there were more fires burnt than in any other establishment in tho empire, this was of no consequence, because the coals were his own. His rent-roll exhibited a sum total, very neatly written, of two hundred thousand pounds; but this was independent of half a million in tho funds, which we had noarly for, gotten, and which remained from tho accumulations occasioned by the unhappy death of his father.

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Szczegóły: The Young Duke - Beaconsfield Earl of

Nazwa: The Young Duke 'A Moral Tale, Though Gay', Count Alarcos: A Tragedy (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Beaconsfield Earl of
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330287873
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 468
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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