 | Edmund Butcher - 1805 - 482 pages
...aggrandizement of her children by Sir William Cavendish. To sum up her character— she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct ; proud, furious,...She was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money-lender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. When disengaged from these employments,... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 pages
...Sir William Cavendish. To sum up her character with the brevity here required, she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct ; proud, furious,...buyer and seller of estates, a money lender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. When disengaged from these employmeuts, she intrigued alternately... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...provoked, in the least degree more feminine ; we are told that Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, " was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money lender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals and timber ;" and her daughter Mary, who married Gilbert, seventh Earl... | |
 | 1822 - 206 pages
...interest, and happiness of his family, to the aggrandizement of her children by Sir William Cavendish. She was a woman of » masculine understanding and conduct ; proud, furious, selfish, and unfeeling : a builder, a bnyer and seller of estates, a money-lender, a farmer, and a trader in lead, coals,... | |
 | R. Ward - Derbyshire (England) - 1827 - 234 pages
...beneath." Of this lady the following character is given by Lodge, in his Illustrations of British History. "She was a woman of masculine understanding and conduct,...She was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money-lender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals and timber. When disengaged from these employments,... | |
 | John Burke - Baronetage - 1832 - 768 pages
...Shrewsbury, the richest and most powerful peer of his time. To sum up her character, she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct ; proud, furious,...She was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money-lender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. She lived to a great old age, and... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Great Britain - 1834 - 286 pages
...familiar to you. Lodge in his Illustrations of British History gives the following summary of it : " She was a woman of masculine understanding and conduct,...She was a builder^ a buyer and seller of estates, a money-lender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. When disengaged from these employments,... | |
 | Charles Samuel Stewart - Great Britain - 1835 - 578 pages
...familiar to you. Lodge in his Illustrations of British History gives the following summary of it : " She was a woman of masculine understanding and conduct,...She was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money-lender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. When disengaged from these employments,... | |
 | William Carpenter - Nobility - 1837 - 894 pages
...her character, she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct ; proud, furious, seltish, and unfeeling. She was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money-lender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. She lived to a great old age, and... | |
 | Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1838 - 602 pages
...William Cavendish. To sum up her character with the brevity here required — she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct; proud, furious,...She was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a moneylender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals, and timber: when disengaged from these employments,... | |
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To sum up her character with the brevity here required — she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct; proud, furious, selfish, and unfeeling. She was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a moneylender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead,... 
