 There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies and the adulation of friends than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely any whose reputation has been more certainly determined by the unanimous consent...  The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 126by Alexander Chalmers - 1814Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 552 pages
...overcast the evening of that day, an<iciia. which had shone out with a mighty lustre in the racier. eyes of all Europe. There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed fo the calumny of enemies, and the adulation of friends. than queen Elizabeth; and yet there is scarcely... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 550 pages
...overcast the evening of that day, and chswhich, had shone out with a mighty lustre in the ractereyes -of all Europe. There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely... | |
 | Voltaire - 1824 - 446 pages
...summing up the character of Queen Elizabeth, a masterpiece in its way, observes, that few great persons have been more exposed to the calumnies of enemies and the adulation of friends, than that celebrated sovereign ; and yet that we scarcely hear of any one whose real pretensions are more... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 440 pages
...struggle or convulsion, in the seventieth year of her age, and forty-fifth of her reign. So dark a cloud overcast the evening of that day, which had shone...personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation of friends, than queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...history without sorrow. BOBEBTSON. the majestic, mu/vstueusc. — 1 6 Brought on, lui causa. ELtZABETH. There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation of friends, than queen Elisabeth ; and yet there'is scarce any... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...struggle or convulsion, in the seventieth year of her age, and forty-fifth of her reign. So dark a cloud overcast the evening of that day, which had shone out with a mighty luster in the eyes of all Europe. There are few great personages in history, who have been more exposed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...convulsion (March 24), in the seventieth year of her age and forty-fifth of her reign. So dark a cloud like I paced round the haunts of my childhood ; Earth seemed a desert I was bound to nf all Europe. There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...age and forty-fifth of her reign. So dark a cloud overcast the evening of that day which had «hone n, And I should dine at Ware, So turning to his horse, he said, I am in haste to dine his tory who have been more exposed to the calumny о enemies and the adulation of friends than Queen... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...convulsion (March 24), in the seventieth year of her age, and forty-fifth of her reign. So dark a cloud overcast the evening of that day, which had shone...personages in history, who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely... | |
 | George Vandenhoff - Elocution - 1846 - 398 pages
...struggle or convulsion, in the seventieth year of her age and forty-fifth of her reign. So dark a cloud overcast the evening of that day, which had shone...calumnies of enemies, and the adulation of friends, than dueen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely any whose reputation has been more certainly determined... | |
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