 Numberless honourable ladies of the present time surpass the daughters of sir Thomas More in every kind of learning. But amongst them all, my illustrious mistress the lady Elizabeth shines like a star, excelling them more by the splendour of her virtues...  Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth - Side 84af Lucy Aikin - 1821Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 648 sider
...talent, industry, perseverance, and erudition, surpasses both his own years, and the belief of men. — Numberless honourable ladies of the present time surpass...Thomas More in every kind of learning. But amongst tin-in all, ray illustrious mistress, the lady Elizabeth, shines like a star, excelling them more by... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1837 - 574 sider
...my illustrious mistress, the Lady Elizabeth, shines like a star, excelling them more by the splendor of her virtues and her learning, than by the glory...commendable qualities, I am less perplexed to find matters for the highest panegyric, than to circumscribe that panegyric within just bounds. Yet, I shall... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1837 - 574 sider
...Ascham writes to a friend in '1550, — "Amongst the numberless honorable ladies of the present time, my illustrious mistress, the Lady Elizabeth, shines like a star, excelling them more by the splendor of her virtues and her learning, than by the glory of her royal birth. In the variety of her... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1842 - 1006 sider
...scholastic attainments he is justly proud. " Numberless honourable ladies of the present time," says he, " surpass the daughters of sir Thomas More, in every...excelling them more by the splendour of her virtues than by the glory of her royal 1 This precious relic was, at the time Anthony-a-Wood wrote, in the... | |
 | Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - 1844 - 532 sider
...scholastic attainments he is justly proud. " Numberless honourable ladies of the present time," says he, " surpass the daughters of sir Thomas More, in every...excelling them more by the splendour of her virtues than by the glory of her royal It was probably about this period that Elizabeth translated an Italian... | |
 | 1846 - 514 sider
...and stirring passages in your letters and elsewhere. Your sometime tutor, Roger Axham, truly says, ' Numberless honourable ladies of the present time surpass...mistress, the Lady Elizabeth, shines like a star. This is well.'" " Truly," observed the praised princess, with complaisance, " I am much beholden to... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1848 - 374 sider
...scholastic attainments he is justly proud. " Numberless honourable ladies of the present time," says he, "surpass the daughters of sir Thomas More, in every...excelling them more by the splendour of her virtues than by the glory of her royal birth. In the variety of her commendable qualities, I am less perplexed... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1852 - 908 sider
...scholastic attainments he is justly proud. u N umberless honourable ladies of the present time," says he, "surpass the daughters of sir Thomas More, in every...star, excelling them more by the splendour of her virmes than by the glory of her royal birth. In the variety of her commendable qualities, I am less... | |
 | James Anderson - 1855 - 946 sider
...early education, and as to her distinguished proficiency, and her promising excellence of character. " Numberless honourable ladies of the present time surpass...her learning, than by the glory of her royal birth She has accomplished her sixteenth .year ; and so much solidity of understanding, such courtesy, united... | |
 | Francis Lancelott - 1858 - 552 sider
...in talent, industry, perseverance and erudition, surpasses both his own years and the belief of men. Numberless honourable ladies of the present time surpass...virtues and her learning, than by the glory of her birth. In the variety of her commendable qualities, I am less perplexed to find matter for the highest... | |
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