Biography of distinguished women; or, woman's record, from the creation to A. D. 1869. Arranged in four eras. With selections from authoresses of each era (1876)
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879 · New York, Harper · leaf 295
termined somewhat intemperate, which is supposed to have .to anticipate him by a bolder movement. hastened her end ; but we must not forget in judg¬ Although on his first accession Peter had shown, ing her for this gross appetite, that drunkenness in many of his acts, true greatness and generosity… … CATHARINE II., ALEXIEONA, fell suddenly upon him and strangled him. Ii does not appear that Catharine actually Ordered Empress of Russia, born May 2d, 1729, was the murder, but she showed no sorrow for it, and the daughter of the prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, go¬ 251
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