Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 37
Stuarts presup-posed a mighty spine in the user, that inVenice declared an alert and active race,hut that in France assumed itself to be thecompanion of weariness and the friend ofleisure, and which, taking on an unrighteoussplendor in the days of the second greatmodern monarch in Europe, in those… … THE SEAT. 33 The greater part of these chairs, through all the many years, weremanufactured in wood, but occasionally they are found to have been inbronze, in iron, and even in more precious metals — such as the famouschair of Dagobert, and such as the chair in which Don Martin, King ofAragon, was…
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