 | William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1803 - 498 pages
...years and a few months. Few qualities, either estimable or amiable, attach to the character of Mary ; and her person was as little engaging as her behaviour...Obstinacy, bigotry, violence, cruelty, malignity, and revenge, the fruits of a bad tern- T per, and a narrow understanding, are with justice ascribed... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 480 pages
...eleven days. IT is not necessary to employ many words in drawing the character of this princess. She possessed few qualities either estimable or amiable;...Obstinacy, bigotry, violence, cruelty, malignity, revenge, tyranny ; every circumstance of her character, took a tincture from her bad temper and narrow understanding.... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...CHARACTER OF MARY. IT is not necessary to employ many words in drawing the character of this princess. She possessed few qualities either estimable or amiable,...engaging as her behaviour and address. Obstinacy, higotry, violence, cruelty, malignity, revenge, and tyranny ; every circumstance of her character took... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 512 pages
...is not necessary," says Hume, "to employ many words in drawing the character of this princess. She possessed few qualities either estimable or amiable,...Obstinacy, bigotry, violence, cruelty, malignity, revenge, tyranny ; every circumstance of her character took a tincture from her bad temper and narrow understanding.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 540 pages
...is not necessary," says Hume, " to employ many words in drawing the character of this princess. She possessed few qualities either estimable or amiable,...Obstinacy, bigotry, violence, cruelty, malignity, revenge, tyranny ; every circumstance of her character took a tincture from her bad temper and narrow understanding.... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 542 pages
...is not necessary," says Hume, " to employ many words in drawing the character of this princess. She possessed few qualities either estimable or amiable,...Obstinacy, bigotry, violence, cruelty, malignity, revenge, tyranny; every circumstance of her character took a tincture from her bad temper and narrow understanding.... | |
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1817 - 276 pages
...asd unfortunate reign of five years and four months. This queen possessed very few good qualities, and her person was as little engaging as her behaviour and address. Cardinal Pole, who had long been sickly, died the same day as the queen ; he was universally beloved,... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1819 - 368 pages
...eleven days. It is not necessary to employ many words in drawing the character of this princess. She possessed few qualities either estimable or amiable;...engaging as her behaviour and address. Obstinacy, higotry, violence, cruelty, malignity, revenge, tyranny; every circumstance of her character, took... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Great Britain - 1821 - 304 pages
...very indulgent to the frailties of royalty, says, in drawing the character of this princess, that she possessed few qualities either estimable or amiable ; and her person was as little engaging as her hehaviour and address : obstinacy, revenge, higotry, violence, cruelty, malignity, tyranny ; every... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1825 - 486 pages
...eleven days. It is not necessary to employ many words in drawing the character of this princess. She possessed few qualities either estimable or amiable;...Obstinacy, bigotry, violence, cruelty, malignity, revenge, tyranny; every circumstance of her character, took a tincture from her bad temper and narrow understanding.... | |
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It is not necessary to employ many words in drawing the character of this princess. She possessed few qualities either estimable or amiable ; and her person was as little engaging as her behaviour and address. Obstinacy, bigotry, violence, cruelty, malignity,... 
