 ... 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
 | Thames river - Thames River - 1906 - 488 pages
...imperious ways. She openly sold the places in the Duke's gift, and it was the opinion of Burnet that she " would have stuck at nothing by which she might compass her ends." The " Cabal " constantly held their councils at Ham House, the Duchess of Lauderdale often being present... | |
 | T. E. S. Clarke, Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, Charles Harding Firth - Great Britain - 1907 - 650 pages
...mathematics and philo" sophy. 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.... | |
 | T. E. S. Clarke, Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, Charles Harding Firth - Great Britain - 1907 - 664 pages
...mathematics and philo' sophy. 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.... | |
 | T. E. S. Clarke, Helen Charlotte Foxcroft, Charles Harding Firth - Great Britain - 1907 - 662 pages
...mathematics and philo" sophy. 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.... | |
 | Lionel Arthur Tollemache - Authors, English - 1908 - 382 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 blemishes of another kind, which she seemed to despise, and to take little care of the decencies... | |
 | Lionel Arthur Tollemache - Authors, English - 1908 - 376 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... | |
 | William Cook Mackenzie - Covenanters - 1923 - 548 pages
...history, but mathematics and philosophy. 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." ' Not a " nice " woman, one would be inclined to say, from this description. But it must be remembered... | |
 | T. E. S. Clarke, Helen Charlotte Foxcroft - Authors, English - 1907 - 644 pages
...mathematics and philo' sophy. 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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