 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 372 pagina’s
...from those which constitute its peculiar charm; for she had abundance of foibles ; a coquetry and a love of admiration which age could not chill ; a levity most careless, if not criminal ; and a fondness for dress and tawdry magnificence of ornament which was ridiculous or disgusting,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 368 pagina’s
...Elizabeth seemed to divorce her, in a great measure, from the peculiar attributes of her sex ; at least from those which constitute its peculiar charm; for she had abundance of foibles; a coquetry and a love of admiration which age could not chill ; a levity most careless, if... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 368 pagina’s
...Elizabeth seemed to divorce her, in a great measure, from the peculiar attributes of her sex ; at least from those which constitute its peculiar charm ; for she had abundance of foibles ; a coquetry and a love of admiration which age could not chill ; a levity most careless, if... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1849 - 598 pagina’s
...Elizabeth seemed to divorce her in a great measure from the peculiar attributes of her sex, at least from those which constitute its peculiar charm ; for she had abundance of its foibles,—a coquetry and love of admiration which age could not chill; a levity, most careless, if... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1853 - 332 pagina’s
...Elizabeth seemed to divorce her in a great measure from the peculiar attributes of her sex; at least from those which constitute its peculiar charm; for she had abundance of its foibles—a coquetry and love of admiration which age could not •hill; a levity most careless, if... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1854 - 492 pagina’s
...Elizabeth seemed to divorce her in a great measure from the peculiar attributes of her sex, at least from those which constitute its peculiar charm ; for...a coquetry and love of admiration which age could (1) She gave evidence of this in the commutation of the sentence she obtained for the wretch who stabbed... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1854 - 484 pagina’s
...Elizabeth seemed to divorce her in a great measure irom the peculiar attributes of her sex, at least from those which constitute its peculiar charm ; for...a coquetry and love of admiration which ag'e could (1) She gave evidence of this in the commutation of the sentence «he obtained for the wretch who stabbed... | |
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The masculine powers and passions of Elizabeth seemed to divorce her in a great measure from the peculiar attributes of her sex; at least from those which constitute its peculiar charm; for she had abundance of its foibles — a coquetry and love of admiration... 
