 We must pronounce Miss Strickland beyond all comparison the most entertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scrupulous justice and honesty of purpose.  Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles - Стр. 2авторы: George Melly - 1851Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Annie Forbes Bush - 1843 - Страниц: 424
...comparison themostentertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scrupulous justice and honesty of purpose. And, as we before remarked, the considerable number of new documents to which she has had access, and... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - Страниц: 580
...of England,' and especially for her Memoir of Mary of Modena. In this instance Miss Strickland bos made a very judicious use of many authentic MS. authorities...interesting addition to our biographical library. r It is Kiid by those acquainted with the Cambridge Collections, that the noble editor of Pepys took... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - Страниц: 436
...These volumes have the fascination of a romance united to the integrity of history." — Times. " Misi Strickland has made a very judicious use of many authentic...our biographical library." — Quarterly Review. " A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of our day who has devoted her pen... | |
 | Agnes Strickland - 1848 - Страниц: 518
...PRESS. " These volumes have the fascination of a romance united to the integrity of history."—Times. " Miss Strickland has made a very judicious use of many...is a most interesting addition to our biographical library."—Quarterly Review. " A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of... | |
 | Robert Stewart Castlereagh (Viscount) - 1848 - Страниц: 506
...romance united to the integrity of history." — Times. " .Miss Strickland has made a very judicious uae of many authentic MS. authorities not previously collected,...addition to our biographical library." — Quarterly Itcvicw. " A most valuable and entertaining work. There is certainly no lady of our day who 'has devoted... | |
 | Thomas Birch, Robert Folkestone Williams - 1848 - Страниц: 526
...comparison themost entertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scrupulous justice and honesty of purpose. And, as we before remarked, the considerable number of new documents to which she baa had access, and... | |
 | John Gideon Millingen - 1848 - Страниц: 446
...comparison tbemost entertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scrupulous justice and honesty of purpose. And, as we before remarked, the considerable number of new documents to which she has had access, and... | |
 | William A. Ross - 1848 - Страниц: 350
...comparison themost entertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scrupulous justice and honesty of purpose. And, as we before remarked, the considerable number of new documents to which she has had access, and... | |
 | Thomas Birch, Robert Folkestone Williams - 1848 - Страниц: 576
...the mo»t entertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scrupulous justice and honesty of purpose. And, as we before remarked, the considerable number of new documents to which she has had access, and... | |
 | Anne Mary Louisa (duchess of Montpensier.) - 1848 - Страниц: 322
...comparison themost entertaining historian in the English language. She is certainly a woman of powerful and active mind, as well as of scrupulous justice and honesty of purpose. And, as we before remarked, the considerable number of new documents to which she has had access, and... | |
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