 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - English prose literature - 1904 - 508 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...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... | |
 | Esther Singleton - Women - 1904 - 454 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... | |
 | Esther Singleton - Women - 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...mainly from this wise limitation of her aims. She ha^la finer sense than any of her counsellors of her real resources ; she knew instinctively how far... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 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.... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1914 - 724 pages
...Century for an important article, and thereby strained my resources. Rev. of Rev., CXCVIII, 5706. ii. She had a finer sense than any of her counsellors of her real resources. GREEN, Short Hist., Ch. VII, §3, 371. Falstaff was never at the end of his resources. WALTER RALEIQH,... | |
 | John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1908 - 530 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...intellect was never swayed by enthusiasm or by panic cither to exaggerate or to under-estimate her risks or her power. SEC. 1n Of political wisdom indeed... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford - English language - 1908 - 496 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. — GREEN : History of the English People. method ? Why is that of the Queen more effective ? Kewrite... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford, Margaret Judson - English language - 1908 - 496 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... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1916 - 758 pages
...everything he pretended to be. GRANT ALLEN, That Friend of Sylvia's. (= Dutch ten slotte.) Compare: Her amazing success in the end sprang mainly from this wise limitation of her aims. GREEN, Short Hist, Ch. VII, § 3, 371. (= Dutch ten slotte.) at all. Only in sentences or clauses which... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - English language - 1914 - 730 pages
...Century for an important article, and thereby strained my resources. Rev. of Rev., CXC VIII, 5706. ii. She had a finer sense than any of her counsellors of her real resources. GREEN, Short Hist., Ch. VII, § 3, 371. Falstaff was never at the end of his resources. WALTER RALEIOH,... | |
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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 
