 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - Страниц: 628
...of his virtues and talents might have satisfied the wisest desires and the most ambitious hopes. ' She attended on him,' says Burnet, ' during his sickness,...resignation and piety that were indeed very singular.' It might have occurred to the bishop that this composedness was the demeanour of one who submitted... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1820 - Страниц: 616
...of his virtues and talents might have satisfied the wisest desires and the most ambitious hopes. ' She attended on him,' says Burnet, ' during his sickness,...resignation and piety that were indeed very singular.' It might have occurred to the bishop that this composedness was the demeanour of one who submitted... | |
 | 1820 - Страниц: 632
...during his sick- • • •• 'ness, with great tenderness, but with a grave composedncss that ama/ed all who saw it ; she bore his death with a resignation and piety that were indeed very singular.' It might have occurred to the bishop that this composedness was the demeanour of one who submitted... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1823 - Страниц: 576
...seventeen that the princess had borne, some to the full time, and the rest before it. She attended on him, during his sickness, with great tenderness, but with...resignation and piety that were indeed very singular h . His death gave a great alarm to the whole nation: the Jacobites grew insolent upon it, and said,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - 1823 - Страниц: 576
...seventeen that the princess had borne, some to the full time, and the rest before it. She attended on him, during his sickness, with great tenderness, but with...resignation and piety that were indeed very singular h. His death gave a great alarm to the whole nation : the Jacobites grew insolent upon it, and said,... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - 1831 - Страниц: 382
...without melting into tears ; and in her * Bishop Burnet says, that " the queen attended on her son during his sickness with great tenderness, but with a grave composedness that amazed all who saw it, and that she bore his death with a resignation and piety which were indeed very singutar." It must... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - Страниц: 476
...403, 470. PlaIon.] QUEEN ANNE. 7 which the hand of fete could well strike. " She attended on hîm," says Burnet, " during his sickness, with great tenderness,...resignation and piety that were indeed very singular." After this event, in her familiar letters to the countess of Marlborough, she always applied to herself... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - Страниц: 246
...portion. " Burnet— Edit. 1731— vol. iv. pp. 403, 470. which the hand of fate could well strike. " She attended on him," says Burnet, " during his sickness,...resignation and piety that were indeed very singular." After this event, in her familiar letters to the countess of Marlborough, she always applied to herself... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1839 - Страниц: 518
...the Princess, attended him throughout his illness " with great tenderness," according to Burnet, " but with a grave composedness that amazed all who...with a resignation and piety that were indeed very singular."t The Earl of Marlborough hastened to Windsor upon the first intelligence of the fatal disease,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1843 - Страниц: 530
...dislike and contempt for his * Letters illustrative of the Reign of William III, vol. iii. p. 118. I sister-in-law, was unusually affected by the death...favourite, the Duchess of Marlborough, as " your poor, unfortunate, faithful Morley : " it is scarcely necessary to mention, that Anne and the Duchess were... | |
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I had been trusted," says Burnet, "with his education now for two years; and he made an amazing progress. I had read over the Psalms, Proverbs, and Gospels with him, and had explained things that fell in my way, very copiously; and was often surprised... 
