 | Timothy Dwight - 1899 - 542 pages
...She rejected with a laugh the offers of the Protestants to make her " head of the religion " and " mistress of the seas." But her amazing success in...exaggerate or to under-estimate her risks or her power. Of political wisdom indeed in its larger and more generous sense Elizabeth had little or none ; but... | |
 | Gertrude Buck, Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris - English language - 1899 - 312 pages
...She rejected with a laugh the offers of the Protestants to make her ' head of the Religion ' and ' mistress of the Seas.' But her amazing success in...of her aims. She had a finer sense than any of her counselors of her real resources; she knew instinctively how far she could go, and what she could do.... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - English language - 1900 - 334 pages
...She rejected with a laugh the offers of the Protestants to make her " head of the religion " and " mistress of the seas." But her amazing success in...exaggerate or to underestimate her risks or her power. Of political wisdom indeed, in its larger and more generous sense, Elizabeth had little or none ; but... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - English language - 1900 - 520 pages
...She rejected with a laugh the offers of the Protestants to make her " head of the religion " and " mistress of the seas." But her amazing success in...exaggerate or to under-estimate her risks or her power. Of political wisdom indeed in its larger and more generous sense Elizabeth had little or none ; but... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 460 pages
...sprang mainly from this wise limitation of her aims. She had a finer sense than any of her counselors of her real resources; she knew instinctively how...exaggerate or to underestimate her risks or her power. Of political wisdom, indeed, in its larger and more generous sense, Elizabeth had little or none; but... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 464 pages
...Countries. She rejected with a laugh the offers of the Protestants to make her "head of the religion" and " mistress of the seas." But her amazing success in...of her aims. She had a finer sense than any of her counselors of her real resources; she knew instinctively how far she could go, and what she could do.... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Adaline Wheelock Sterling - Readers - 1901 - 526 pages
...Protestants to make her " head of the religion " and" mistress of the seas." But her amazing indifference in the end sprang mainly from this wise limitation...of her aims. She had a finer sense than any of her counselors of her real resources ; she knew instinctively how far she could go and what she could do.... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1902 - 556 pages
...She rejected with a laugh the offers of the Protestants to make her " head of the religion " and " mistress of the seas." But her amazing success in...exaggerate or to under-estimate her risks or her power. SEc. in Of political wisdom indeed in its larger and more generous ELIZAUETH sense Elizabeth had little... | |
 | Edna Henry Lee Turpin - Readers - 1902 - 432 pages
...Countries. She rejected with a laugh the offers of the Protestants to make her "head of the religion," and "mistress of the seas." But her amazing success in...of her aims. She had a finer sense than any of her counselors of her real resources ; she knew instinctively how far she could go and what she could do.... | |
 | Esther Singleton - Queens - 1904 - 448 pages
...She rejected with a laugh the offers of the Protestants to make her " head of the religion " and " mistress of the seas." But her amazing success in...exaggerate or to underestimate her risks or her power. Of political wisdom, indeed, in its larger and more generous sense, Elizabeth had little or none ;... | |
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She was resolute in her refusal of the Low Countries. She rejected with a laugh the offers of the Protestants to make her " head of the religion " and 
