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Hanoverians, when ho accompanied that King on 

 to il,- Electorate i: Perlwp* II 



inothi-r wa.s tin .-\aijij.l.- nf thi> -n ;it -nnj.li.-^;. n.: 



J.I. li- ! 



of exceeding bitterness to William Herscbel and hi- 



akter. There can be little doubt that both of them 



the blame of great mistakes committed, 



and grave responsibilities incurred , which darkened her 



UOH'M fut t; Possibly it had something to do 



the difficulty he had, as ho approached i M. :h 



year, in drawing up an autobiography, an ho wished to 

 himself much at a loss for the dates 

 i. or oven the year, when ho first arrived 

 in England with his brother Jacob." The work was 

 handed over to Caroline, who undertook it with th<> 

 "proviso not to criticise on my telling my >t< 



own way." li< T youngest brotl 

 scapegrace of the family, was under three years 

 of age when those sorrowful passages occurred in 

 i.sehold history. When past seventy he was 

 as hard to deal with as in his teens. " Let mo touch on 

 what topic I would," she writes, " he maintained tin- 

 contrary, which I soon saw was done merely because 

 he would allow no one to know anything but himself." 

 There were two strains in this largo family, as 

 there are in many others, one tending downwards, 

 annth. r soaring upwards, and tin- iWiu. r i> usually 

 a grief to the 1. lacob, Dietrich, and Sophia 



represented the one: William. Camlm,-, and. in .i 

 lesser degree, Alexander represented ih- 

 "iily one who made a fortune was William, and 

 th* one who got a larger share of it than any 

 "i" the others, even than Caroline and Alexander, 



