 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1803 - 498 pages
...exempt from rashness, her frugality from avarice, and her activity from the turbulence of ambition ; but the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger, sullied the perfection of her character ; and shewed that she was still a woman, but without the amiability... | |
 | Mary Hays - Women - 1807 - 528 pages
...her against those lesser infirmities, from which the wisest and the strongest are not always exempt. The rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger, which she suffered to display themselves with so little control, sometimes betrayed her into circumstances... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 510 pages
...turbulency and a vain ambition ; she guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities ; the rivalship of beauty, the desire...admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. Under the wise conduct of Elizabeth the Protestant religion was firmly established, factions restrained,... | |
 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...partiality, her enterprize from turbulency, and a vain ambition. She guarded not herself with1 equal care, or equal success, from less infirmities ; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of ambition, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. Her singular talents for government were... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 502 pages
...turbulency and a vain ambition ; she guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of...admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. Under the wise conduct of Elizabeth the Protestant religion was firmly established, factions restrained,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 528 pages
...herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities ; the rivalship of beauty, the t » I desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. Under the wise conduct of Elizabeth the Protestant religion was firmly established, factions restrained,... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - English language - 1817 - 594 pages
...turbulency, ant1, a vain ambition. She guarded no: herself with equal care or equal saccess from lesser infirmities ; the rivalship of beauty, the desire...singular talents for government were founded equally on lier temper and on her capacity. Endowed with a great command over her552 self, she soon obtained an... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...ambition ; she guarded not herself, with equal care or equal success, from lesser infirmities i— the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the bailies of unger. Her singular talents for government were founded equally on her temper and on her... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Great Britain - 1821 - 304 pages
...guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities ; the rivalship of heauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. The most admirable part of Elizaheth's character was her wonderful capacity for government ; by which,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...guarded not herself with equal care, or equal success, from less infirmities; the rivalship uf beautv, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and...government, were founded equally on her temper, and on rapacity. Endowed with a great command over herself, she soon obtained an uncontrolled ascendant over... | |
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Her heroism was exempt from temerity, her frugality from avarice, her friendship from partiality, her active temper from turbulency and a vain ambition. She guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities — the rivalship... 
