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Her Majesty The Queen.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN .
It were , indeed , a hopeless task to attempt to describe , firstly , the feeling of consternation which the announcement towards ! the close of last week as to the state of the QUEEN ' S health gave rise to among all classes , not only in the ' United Kingdom , but as the news spread far and wide throughout the whole of the j
British Empire ; and then the profound sorrow which her death has evoked at home and among the nations of the civilised world . No Sovereign that ever reigned in any country at any period in the world's history has enjoyed to a greater extent the respect and love of her subjects than the venerable and generous Lady , who
Her Majesty The Queen.
! on the evening of Tuesday , the 22 nd instant , ' in the presence of her children and grandchildren , passed peacefully to her eternal rest . From the day of her accession to the throne to the closing
! ! scene , at Osborne , of her long and glorious reign , Queen VICTORIA devoted herself heart and soul to the discharge of the onerous and responsible duties of her exalted station . At no lime did it occur to her to sacrifice
public duty to private inclination . Not even in the clays of her severest trials , when she herself was well nigh borne down b y the weight of her own personal sorrows , did she neglect the cares of State or leave unlended anything that was calculated to promote the welfare of her Kingdom or the happiness of her
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Her Majesty The Queen.
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN .
It were , indeed , a hopeless task to attempt to describe , firstly , the feeling of consternation which the announcement towards ! the close of last week as to the state of the QUEEN ' S health gave rise to among all classes , not only in the ' United Kingdom , but as the news spread far and wide throughout the whole of the j
British Empire ; and then the profound sorrow which her death has evoked at home and among the nations of the civilised world . No Sovereign that ever reigned in any country at any period in the world's history has enjoyed to a greater extent the respect and love of her subjects than the venerable and generous Lady , who
Her Majesty The Queen.
! on the evening of Tuesday , the 22 nd instant , ' in the presence of her children and grandchildren , passed peacefully to her eternal rest . From the day of her accession to the throne to the closing
! ! scene , at Osborne , of her long and glorious reign , Queen VICTORIA devoted herself heart and soul to the discharge of the onerous and responsible duties of her exalted station . At no lime did it occur to her to sacrifice
public duty to private inclination . Not even in the clays of her severest trials , when she herself was well nigh borne down b y the weight of her own personal sorrows , did she neglect the cares of State or leave unlended anything that was calculated to promote the welfare of her Kingdom or the happiness of her