 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 466 pages
...enumerated circum- Devereux, ftances enough of her life, to give a tolerable idea of the wo- ° crt" man ; fo that there is no occafion to draw out her character...written of her in the following manner : " Our Elizabeth tf was queen in a limited monarchy, and reigned over a peo" pie at all times more eafily led than driven... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806 - 476 pages
...Lord Bolingbroke's able delineation of her political character may conclude these brief notices. " Our Elizabeth was queen in a limited monarchy, and reigned over a people at all times more easily led than driven ; and at that time capable of being attached to their prince and their country... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 520 pages
...spirit, strength, and climax in the arrangement of sentences, for which he has been so much celebrated. " Our Elizabeth was queen in a limited monarchy, and reigned over a people at all times more easily led than driven ; and at that time capable of being attached to their prince and their country,... | |
 | Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1809 - 498 pages
...or, in the other sex, that of Messalina, and such, as I leave the chroniclers of scandal to relate. Our Elizabeth was queen in a limited monarchy, and reigned over a people at all times more easily led than driven ; and at that time capable of being attached to their prince and their country,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1809 - 524 pages
...spirit, strength, and climax in the arrangement of sentences, for which he has been so much celebrated. " Our Elizabeth was queen in a limited monarchy, and reigned over a people at all times more easily led than driven ; and at that time capable of being attached to their prince and their country,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 510 pages
...of queen Elizabeth coincides in part with the preceding. In his "Idea of a Patriot King," he says, " our Elizabeth was queen in a limited monarchy, and reigned over a people at all times more easily led than driven ; and at that time capable of being attached to their prince and their country... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 528 pages
...queen Elizabeth coincides in part with the preceding. In his " Idea of a Patriot King," he says, •" our Elizabeth was queen in a limited monarchy, and reigned over a people at all times more easily led than driven ; and at that time capable of being attached to their prince and their country... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 502 pages
...queen Elizabeth coincides in part with the preceding. In his " Idea of a Patriot King," he says, " our Elizabeth was queen in a limited monarchy, and reigned over a people at all times more easily led than driven ; and at that time capable of being attached to their prince and their country... | |
 | Biography - 1835 - 492 pages
...and with fairness, by Lord Bolingbroke, in the following passage from his Idea of a Patriot King. " Our Elizabeth was queen in a limited monarchy, and reigned over a people at all times more easily led than driven ; and at that time capable of being attached to their prince and their country... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1836 - 296 pages
...and with fairness, by Lord Bolingbroke, in the following passage from his Idea of a Patriot King. " Our Elizabeth was queen in a limited monarchy, and reigned over a people at all times more easily led than driven ; and at that time capable of being attached to their prince and their country... | |
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Our Elizabeth was queen in a limited monarchy, and reigned over a people at all times more easily led than driven ; and at that time capable of being attached to their prince and their country, by a more generous principle than any of those which prevail... 
