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" Her heroism was exempt from temerity, her frugality from avarice, her friendship from partiality, her active temper from turbulency and a vain ambition : She guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities; the rivalship of... "
The World Displayed, in Its History and Geography;: Embracing a History of ... - Page 206
by Royal Robbins - 1833
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Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to ...

William Fordyce Mavor - World history - 1803 - 498 pages
...exempt from rashness, her frugality from avarice, and her activity from the turbulence of ambition ; but the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger, sullied the perfection of her character ; and shewed that she was still a...
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Female Biography: Or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women ..., Volume 2

Mary Hays - Women - 1807 - 528 pages
...her against those lesser infirmities, from which the wisest and the strongest are not always exempt. The rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger, which she suffered to display themselves with so little control, sometimes...
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The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the ..., Volume 5

David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 552 pages
...a vain ambition : She guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. HER singular talents for government were founded equally on her temper and...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...vain ambition. She guarded not herself, with equal care, or :e.qual success, from less infirmities ; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. , Her singular talents for government were founded equally on her temper...
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The Arts and Sciences Abridged: With a Selection of Pieces, from Celebrated ...

Charles Peirce - Textbooks - 1811 - 266 pages
...vain ambition. She guarded not herself, with equal care, or equal success, from less infirmities ; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. Her singular talents for government were founded equally on her temper and...
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The Spanish language, la gramática inglesa, and the English reader

Nicolas Gouin Dufief - Commercial correspondence, Spanish - 1811 - 606 pages
...a vain ambition. She guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities ; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. Her singular talents for government were founded equally on her temper and...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 4

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...vain amhition. She guarded not herself, with equal care, or equal success, from less infirmities ; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. Her singular talents for government, were founded equally on her temper and...
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The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the revolution ...

David Hume - Great Britain - 1812 - 550 pages
...vain ambition : She guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities ; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. HER singular talents for government were founded equally on her temper and...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and ..., Volume 13

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 510 pages
...vain ambition ; she guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities ; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. Under the wise conduct of Elizabeth the Protestant religion was firmly established,...
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The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical ...

Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1814 - 502 pages
...a vain ambition ; she guarded not herself with equal care or equal success from lesser infirmities; the rivalship of beauty, the desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, and the sallies of anger. Under the wise conduct of Elizabeth the Protestant religion was firmly established,...
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