 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 544 Seiten
...charge, which you will experience in a few years, the disposal of a Baroness; Mademoisellef Necker, one of the greatest heiresses in Europe, is now about...provision of wit than of beauty : what increases their diffieulties is their religious obstinacy of marry ing her only to a protestant. It would be an excellent... | |
 | 1821 - 726 Seiten
...now a very troublesome charge, the disposal of a baroness ; one of the greatest heiresses in Europe, wild, vain, but good-natured, and with a much larger provision of wit than of beauty." — ( Miscellaneous Works, vol. I.) Her mother, he oh-, serves, is determined that she shall marry... | |
 | 1821 - 720 Seiten
...now a very troublesome charge, the disposal of a baroness ; one of the greatest heiresses in Europe, wild, vain, but good-natured, and with a much larger provision of wit than of beauty." — (Miscellaneous Works, vol. I.) Her mother, he observes, is determined that she shall marry only... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 Seiten
...Sheffield's " Observations on the Commerce with the American Stales." a baroness; Mademoiselle Necker*, one of the greatest heiresses in Europe, is now about eighteen, wild, vain, but good natured,and with a much larger provision of wit than of beauty : what increases their difficulties... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 412 Seiten
...; the Abbe de Bourbon, a natural son of Lewis the Fifteenth ; the a baroness; Mademoiselle Necker*, one of the greatest heiresses in Europe, is now about eighteen, wild, vain, but good natured, and with a much larger provision of wit than of beauty : what increases their difficulties... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 Seiten
...Sheffield's " Observations on the Commerce with the American States." a baroness; Mademoiselle Necker*, one of the greatest heiresses in Europe, is now about eighteen, wild, vain, but good natured, and with a much larger provision of wit than of beauty : what increases their difficulties... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 402 Seiten
...Sheffield's " Observations on the Commerce with the American States." a baroness; Mademoiselle Necker*, one of the greatest heiresses in Europe, is now about eighteen, wild, vain, but good natured, and with a much larger provision of wit than of beauty : what increases their difficulties... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1821 - 726 Seiten
...now a very troublesome charge, the disposal of a baroness ; one of the greatest heiresses in Europe, wild, vain, but good-natured, and with a much larger provision of wit than of beauty."— ^(Miscellaneous Works, vol. I. ) Her mother, he oh* serves, is determined that she shall marry only... | |
 | 1830 - 222 Seiten
...a gay and giddy girl. " Mademoiselle Neckcr," «ays the historian in a letter to Lord Sheffield, " one of the greatest heiresses in Europe, is now about eighteen, wild, vain, but good-natured, with a much greater provision of wit than of beauty." It docs not appear that Gibbon at this time appreciated... | |
 | 1833 - 666 Seiten
...only a gay and giddy girL " Mademoiselle Necker," says the historian in a letter to Lord Sheffield, " one of the greatest heiresses in Europe, is now about eighteen, wild, vain, but good-natured, with a much greater provision of wit than of beauty." It does not appear that Gibbon at this time appreciated... | |
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Europe, is now about eighteen, wild, vain, but good-natured, and with a much larger provision of wit than of beauty : what increases their difficulties is their religious obstinacy of marrying her only to a Protestant. 
