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Excerpt from New Elegant Extracts, Vol. 2 of 6: An Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive and Entertaining, From the Most Eminent Prose and Epistolary Writers
Inthe year 940 Athelstan died, regretted by his subjects, and admired by the surrounding nations. He was of a slender habit, and middling stature. His hair, which was yellow, he wore in ringlets entwined with thread of gold. Among the higher orders of the nobility he maintained that reserve which became his superior station: to the lower classes of his subjects he was affable and con descending. From his father he had inherited a considerable treasure; but his liberality was not inferior to his Opulence, and the principal use which he made of money was to enrich others. To his vassals he was accustomed to make valu able presents: the spoil collected in his military expeditions was always divided among his fol.
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