.hub'" i "tf- "■ --■ | : " : Shakespeare loved and married, a; farmer's daughter. Robert Burns married a farm girl, with whomihe fell, m jpye ; w.hXle they follo.wed the plough together. Washingtonjmarrie^ a widow witlj . two .- children. She was , worthy of him they : lived m perfect X harmony; jwi.th -each fothef. made an nnsuitable marriage , with ,the , daughter ; of a, country* sqnire,; She. was ; young, pretty, gay, and frivolous. H^ was j^anj.austere, ; Ji terary ; , recluse.. I They < lived together but a short time arid -wera^separateds : In - after life, jho wever, they became reconciled. Peter the Greajt^ of JElussia^ married a peasaiktv ' s|e,>n\a'd.e 5; an '^excellent; wife. l 'ahd empress. John Howard, 1 the (Philanthropist, marriedr his nurse ; she was fifty-two and he wa twentyfive. She was also beneath him m j spj^al} life; and : intellectual capacity . He would not take * no' for an answer. # ; Ifte)M^ere and lived happily until her death v H.iimboldt fjnaMed a-ptfor' 'girl ■'becauWhe loved her. jQ^/jo.urse.they Avere hap^yV "
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 14, 18 December 1884, Page 4
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