 | Women - 1811 - 386 pages
...gardening. She had no other inclination, besides this, to any diversions that were expensive; and sirtce this employed many hands, she was pleased to say, 'that she hoped it would be forgiven her.' When her eyes were endangered by reading too much, and in all those hours that were not given to better... | |
 | Samuel Burder - Women - 1827 - 482 pages
...them ; but she had no inclinations beyond these to any diversions that were costly; and, since these employed many hands, she was pleased to say, " That she hoped it would be forgiven her." When her eyes were endangered by reading too much, she betook herself to the amusement of work; and... | |
 | David Francis Bacon - Christian biography - 1833 - 630 pages
...them ; but she had no inclinations beyond these to any diversions that were costly, and since these employed many hands she was pleased to say, " That she hoped it would be forgiven her." When her eyes were endangered by reading too much, she betook herself to the amusement of work ; and... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1842 - 196 pages
...expense after it ; she had no other inclinations besides this, to any diversions that were expenseful ; and since this employed many hands, she was pleased...she felt the weight of the charge that lay upon it. When her eyes were endangered by reading too much, she found out the amusement of work ; and in all... | |
 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - Queens - 1852 - 1192 pages
...drew an expense after it: she had no inclinations besides this to any diversions that were expenseful, and since this employed many hands, she was pleased...she felt the weight of the charge that lay upon it." •i The gardenage," that had airs in it " freer than those that were more stiff," was, at the close... | |
 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - Queens - 1852 - 494 pages
...drew an expense after it: she had no incimations besides this to any diversions that were expenscful, and since this employed many hands, she was pleased...that she hoped it would be forgiven her.' Yet she wits uneasy when she felt the weight of tho charge that lay upon it." " The gardenage," that had airs... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1854 - 492 pages
...drew an expense after it: she had no inclinations besides this to any diversions that were expenseful, and since this employed many hands, she was pleased...architecture perpetrated by Mary and her spouse. Neither was worth placing in the list of a queen-regnant's virtues. Perhaps the following eulogy may seem not... | |
 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - Queens - 1872 - 536 pages
...an expense after it ; she had no inclinations besides this to any diversions that were expenseful, and since this employed many hands, she was pleased...to say, ' that she hoped it would be forgiven her.' " " The gardenage," that had airs in it " freer than those that were more stiff," was, at the close... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - Queens - 1885 - 500 pages
...drew an expense nfter it: she had no inclinations besides this to any diversions that were expenscful, and since this employed many hands, she was pleased...the weight of the charge that lay upon it." " The gardenagc," that had airs in it " freer than those that were more stiff," was, at the close of the... | |
 | Ernest Philip Alphonse Law - Great Britain - 1891 - 650 pages
...drew an expense after it ; she had no inclination besides this to any diversions that were expenseful, and since this employed many hands, she was pleased to say that she hoped it would be forgiven her." 4 Of the garden and the hothouses in which Queen Mary's plants were at this time reared, we will quote... | |
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The gardenage," that had airs in it " freer than those that were more stiff," was, at the close of the seventeenth century, completely on a par with the Dutch architecture perpetrated by Mary and her spouse. Neither was worth placing in the list of a... 
