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... German prose writing - Seite 62von Franz K W. Lange - 1882 - 219 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| SEVERAL HANDS - 1759 - 636 Seiten
...reflections on her government. ' There are few great perfonages in hiftory, who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies, and the 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.... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1759 - 636 Seiten
...reflections on her government. * There are few great perfonages in hiftory, who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies, and the 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.... | |
| David Hume - 1775 - 446 Seiten
...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 - 1789 - 416 Seiten
...• IV. Ctarafrtr ofQttssti Eltzalnh. E- are- few perfonages in hiftory who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies and the 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.... | |
| David Hume - 1789 - 510 Seiten
...luftre in the eyes of all Europe. There are few great perfonages in hiftory, who have been more exppfed to the calumny of enemies , and the adulation of friends , than queen Elizabeth ; and yet there fcarcely is any, whofe reputation has been more certainly determined, by the unanimous confent of pofterity.... | |
| 1792 - 494 Seiten
...Another CbareiSer (//"ELIZABETH. There are few great perfonages in hiftory, who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies, and 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... | |
| 1797 - 610 Seiten
...hiftorhn* preceding paragraph. " There are few great perfonàges in hidory, who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation of friends, than Queen .Elizabeth ; and yet there fcarcely is any whofe reputation has been more certainly determined by the unanimous confent of pofterity.... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 Seiten
...Aiuitbtr Cl'artuler of ELIZABETH. There are few great perfonages in hiftory who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies, and the 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 - 1799 - 408 Seiten
...SECTION XI. Character of QUEEN ELIZABETH. THERE are few perfonages in hiftory, who have been more expofed to the calumny of enemies, and the adulation of friends, than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there fcarcely is any, whofe reputation has been more certainly determined by the unanimous confent of pofterity.... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1805 - 288 Seiten
...=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.... | |
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