Note 28 — I DESCENT AND PARENTAGE; CHILDHOOD AND GIRLHOOD (LEYDEN, THE HAGUE, AND RHEENEN, 1630-1650)
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See his extraordinary outburst of passionate woe on receiving the news of the death of a daughter (in 1674) in Briefe des Kurfürsten Karl Ludwig an die Seinen, pp. 234-5: ‘I do not know, why the Lord God seeks to try me so—when I have but a few years more to live, and after all did not create myself, and have no conscious desire of committing any sin,’ &c.