 ... 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
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1860 - 376 pages
...mathematics and philosophy. She was violent in everything 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."... | |
 | William Anderson - Heraldry - 1862 - 806 pages
...but mathematics and philosophy. She was violent in everything 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. She... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1867 - 982 pages
...everything she set about : a violent friend, but a much more violent enemy. She had a restless ambition j was ravenously covetous, and would have stuck at nothing by which she might compass her ends." It was during the lifetime of her second husband that Clifford, Ashley, Buckingham, and Arlington met... | |
 | William Dougal Christie - Great Britain - 1871 - 652 pages
...but mathematics and philosophy. She was violent in everything she set about, a violent friend, but a much more violent enemy. She had a restless ambition, lived at a vast expense, and would have stuck at nothing by which she might compass her ends." (Own Time, i. 424.) Lauderdale... | |
 | lady Dorothy Osborne Temple - 1888 - 686 pages
...mathematics and philosophy. She was violent in everything 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.... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - Great Britain - 1890 - 432 pages
...Burnet ; " violent in everything she set about ; a violent friend, but a much more violent enemy ; ravenously covetous, and would have stuck at nothing by which she might compass her ends." 0 See "Douglas,1' vol. ii, p. 685, the version in vol. i thereof, p. 490, not being correctly printed.... | |
 | Scottish History Society - Scotland - 1893 - 718 pages
...but mathematicks and philosophy. She was violent in everything 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 - 1897 - 666 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'2.... | |
 | Dorothy Osborne - Courtship - 1901 - 372 pages
...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. She had been early in a correspondence with Lord Lauderdale, that had given occasion to censure. When... | |
 | Dorothy Osborne, lady Dorothy (Osborne) Temple - Great Britain - 1901 - 386 pages
...mathematics and philosophy. She was violent in everything 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.... | |
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