 ... some more softness of disposition, some greater lenity of temper, some of those amiable weaknesses by which her sex is distinguished. But the true method of estimating her merit...  the monthly review - Page 411by SEVERAL HANDS - 1759Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...these considerations, and consider her merely as a rational being, placed in authority, and intrusted with the government of mankind. We may find it difficult to reconcile our fancy to her as a wife or a mistress ; but her qualities as a sovereign, though with some considerable exceptions, are the object... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...But the true method of estimating her merit is to lay aside all these considerations, and consider her merely as a rational being placed in authority,...difficult to reconcile our fancy to her as a wife or a mistress; but her qualities as a sovereign, though with some considerable exceptions, are the object... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...these considerations, and consider he merely as a rational being placed in authority, and intrusted with the government of mankind. We may find it difficult to reconcile our fancy to her as a wife or a mistress ; but her qualities as a sovereign, though with some considerable exceptions, are the object... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 248 pages
...these considerations, and consider her merely as a rational being placed in authority and intrusted with the government of mankind. We may find it difficult to reconcile our fancy to her as a wife or a mistress ; but her qualities as a sovereign, though with some considerable exceptions, are the object... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 470 pages
...But the true method of estimating her merit is to lay aside all these considerations, and consider her merely as a rational being placed in authority,...difficult to reconcile our fancy to her as a wife or a mistress; but her qualities as a sovereign, though with some considerable exceptions, are the object... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...lbv~e considerations, and consider her merelv as a rational being placed in authority, and intrusted with the government of mankind. We may find it difficult to reconcile our fancy to her as a wife or a mistress; l»ut ber qualities as a sovereign, though with force considerable exceptions, are the object... | |
 | P. Friedrich Dusar - German language - 1879 - 232 pages
...aside all these considerations, and consider her merely as a rational being placed in authority30, and entrusted with the government of mankind. We may...find it difficult to reconcile our fancy to her as a31 wife; but her qualities as a sovereign, though with some considerable exceptions, are the object... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...these considerations, and consider her merely as a rational being placed in authority, and intrusted ve been a strain of abstraction beyond iny us a wife or a mistress ; but her qualities as a sovereign, though with some considerable exceptions,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...her merely as a rational being, placed in authority, and entrusted with the government of mankind. Wo may find it difficult to reconcile our fancy to her as a wife or a mistress; but her qualities as a sovereign, though with some considerable exceptions, are the object... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - History - 1881 - 368 pages
...these considerations, and consider her merely as a rational being placed in authority, and intrusted with the government of mankind. We may find it difficult to reconcile our fancy to her as a wife or a mistress ; but her qualities as a sovereign, though with some considerable exceptions, arc the object... | |
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