| SEVERAL HANDS - 1759 - 636 σελίδες
...our extracts with the Hiftorian's character of Elizabeth, and his reflections on her government. ' There are few great perfonages in hiftory, who have...adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth; and yet there fcarce is any, whofe reputation has been more certainly determined, by the unanimous conient of pofterity.... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1759 - 636 σελίδες
...our extracts with the Hiftorian's character of Elizabeth, and his reflections on her government. * There are few great perfonages in hiftory, who have...adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there fcarcc is any, whofe reputation has been more' certainly determined, by the unanimous confent of pofterity.... | |
| Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 σελίδες
...there is n;uch to admire, .but ftill more to abhor. The Char after of §>ueen ELIZABETH*. THERE are few perfonages in Hiftory who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation ef friends, than queen Elizabeth, K ^ and * Hume's Hift. of the Houfe ef Tudor, vol. ii. p. 714—71$.... | |
| David Hume - 1775 - 446 σελίδες
...overcaft the evening of that day, which An had (hone out with a mighty luftre in the eyes of all Europe ! There are few great perfonages in hiftory, who have...enemies, and the adulation of friends, than queen hlizabeth ; and yet there fcarcely is any, whofe reputation has been more certainly determined by the... | |
| William Scott - 1789 - 416 σελίδες
...love, or •will re;«l her hiltory without forrow. • IV. Ctarafrtr ofQttssti Eltzalnh. E- are- few perfonages in hiftory who have been more expofed to...adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there fcarce is any whofe reputation h;is been more certainly determined, by the unanimous confent of pofterity.... | |
| David Hume - 1789 - 510 σελίδες
...luftre in the eyes of all Europe. There are few great perfonages in hiftory, who have been more exppfed to the calumny of enemies , and the adulation of friends , than queen Elizabeth ; and yet there fcarcely is any, whofe reputation has been more certainly determined, by the unanimous confent of pofterity.... | |
| 1792 - 494 σελίδες
...24, 1603, aged 70, having reigned 44 years, 4 months, and 8 days. Rafia. § 7±. Another CbareiSer (//"ELIZABETH. There are few great perfonages in hiftory,...the adulation of friends, than queen Elizabeth ; and vet there is fiarce any whofe reputation has bei'n more certainly determined, by the unanimpv.s confent... | |
| Johann Joachim Eschenburg - 1795 - 678 σελίδες
...mighty luftre in the eye« of .-.;:. -фите. '"> • 4*7 of all Europe. There are few perfonagee in hiftory who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies, and adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth; and yet there fcarce is any, whofe reputation ha» been... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 σελίδες
...2^, 1603, aged 70, having reigned 44 years, 4 months, and 8 days. Rafia. % go. Aiuitbtr Cl'artuler of ELIZABETH. There are few great perfonages in hiftory...has been more certainly determined, by the unanimous L. 75 r unanimous confent of pofterity. The unufual length of her adminillration, and the firong features... | |
| 1797 - 610 σελίδες
...confident language of our hiftorhn* preceding paragraph. " There are few great perfonàges in hidory, who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies,...of friends, than Queen .Elizabeth ; and yet there fcarcely is any whofe reputation has been more certainly determined by the unanimous confent of pofterity.... | |
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