 ... a woman of great beauty, but of far greater parts. She had a wonderful quickness of apprehension, and an amazing vivacity in conversation. She had studied not only divinity and history, but mathematics and philosophy. She was violent in everything...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 3951846Full view - About this book
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1813 - 1036 pages
...but mathematies and philosophy. She was violent in every thing she set ahout ; a violent friend ; but a much more violent enemy. She had a restless ambition,...stuck at nothing by which she might compass her ends." (1. 245.) This lady survived the duke many years, and died in 1893. dale and the Earl of Hamilton,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1813 - 936 pages
....mathematics and philosophy. She was violent in every thing she set about ; a violent friend ; but a much more violent enemy. She had a restless ambition,...have stuck at nothing by which she might compass her end*." (I. 245.) This lady survived the duke many years, and died in 1893. dale and the Earl of Hamilton,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 642 pages
...but mathematics and philosophy. She was violent in every thing she set about, a violent friend, but a much more violent enemy. She had a restless ambition, lived at a vast expense, and was ravenously covetous ; and would have stuck at nothing by which she might compass her ends.... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 676 pages
...but mathematics and philosophy. She was violent in every thing she set about, a violent friend, but a much more violent enemy. She had a restless ambition, lived at a vast expense, and was ravenously covetous ; and would have stuck at nothing by which she might compass her ends.... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 602 pages
...history, in mathematics and philosophy, and so far a worthy companion of Lauderdale, who was a man ofgreat attainments, she yet wanted the best of all learning,...Knight of the Garter. These were the great days of Ham House. It must have heen the scene of a perpetual round of courtly festivities, and during this... | |
 | 1846 - 780 pages
...point lace, shews— such is the popular notion — high descent. Well must his VOL. XXXIV. NO. i ( H. flowing wig and loose robe of silk, and his deep,...nothing by which she might compass her ends." So says Burnct. And she was gratified, for her marriage with Lauderdale was soon succeeded by his being created... | |
 | 1846 - 610 pages
...thing she set about; a violent friend, a much more violent enemy. She had a restless ambition, li»ed at a vast expense, was ravenously covetous, and would...Knight of the Garter. These were the great days of Ham House. It must have been the scene of a perpetual round of courtly festivities, and during this... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1850 - 996 pages
...violent friend, but a much more violent enemy. She liad a restless ambition, lived at a vast expense, and was ravenously covetous ; and would have stuck at nothing by which she might compass her ends. She had been early in a correspondence with lord Lauderdale, that had given occasion to censure. When... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - Authors, English - 1854 - 344 pages
...attainments, she yet wanted the best of learning, practical religion. " She was violent in everything she set about; a violent friend, a much more violent...Knight of the Garter. These were the great days of Ham House. It must have been the scene of a perpetual round of courtly festivities, and during this... | |
 | Katherine Thomson - Authors, English - 1854 - 652 pages
...attainments, she yet wanted the best of learning, practical religion. " She was violent in everything she set about; a violent friend, a much more violent...Knight of the Garter. These were the great days of Ham House. It must have been the scene of a perpetual round of courtly festivities, and during this... | |
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