 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 Monthly Magazine - Page 3231797Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1759 - 636 pages
...character of Elizabeth, and his reflections on her government. * There are few great perfonages in hiftory, who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies,...adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there fcarcc is any, whofe reputation has been more' certainly determined, by the unanimous confent of pofterity.... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1759 - 636 pages
...character of Elizabeth, and his reflections on her government. ' There are few great perfonages in hiftory, who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies,...adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth; and yet there fcarce is any, whofe reputation has been more certainly determined, by the unanimous conient of pofterity.... | |
 | Historical miscellany - 1774 - 352 pages
....but ftill more to abhor. The Char after of §>ueen ELIZABETH*. THERE are few perfonages in Hiftory who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation ef friends, than queen Elizabeth, K ^ and * Hume's Hift. of the Houfe ef Tudor, vol. ii. p. 714—71$.... | |
 | David Hume - 1775 - 446 pages
...(hone out with a mighty luftre in the eyes of all Europe ! There are few great perfonages in hiftory, who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation of friends, than queen hlizabeth ; and yet there fcarcely is any, whofe reputation has been more certainly determined by the... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1789 - 416 pages
...her hiltory without forrow. • IV. Ctarafrtr ofQttssti Eltzalnh. E- are- few perfonages in hiftory who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies...adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there fcarce is any whofe reputation h;is been more certainly determined, by the unanimous confent of pofterity.... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...8 days. Rafia. § 7±. Another CbareiSer (//"ELIZABETH. There are few great perfonages in hiftory, who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies,...the adulation of friends, than queen Elizabeth ; and vet there is fiarce any whofe reputation has bei'n more certainly determined, by the unanimpv.s confent... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...and 8 days. Rafia. % go. Aiuitbtr Cl'artuler of ELIZABETH. There are few great perfonages in hiftory who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies,...adulation of friends, than queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is fcarce any whofe reputation has been more certainly determined, by the unanimous L. 75 r unanimous... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1805 - 288 pages
...=JJ/B£W ELIZABETH. THERE are few perfonages in hiftory, who have been more expofed to ihefcalumny^of enemies, and the adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there fcarcely is any, whole reputation has been more certainly determined by the unanimous confent of pofterity. The unufual... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 552 pages
...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 any whose reputation has been more certainly deterjnined * Strype, vol. iv. No. 276. CHAP.... | |
 | Nicolas Gouin Dufief - Commercial correspondence, Spanish - 1811 - 604 pages
...his The Character of Queen Elizabeth. There are few personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation of friends, than queen Elizabeth, and yet there scarce is any whose reputation 1ms been more certainly determined by the unanimous consent of posterity.... | |
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