 | John Clark Ridpath - Ethnology - 1910 - 396 pages
...desire of admiration, the jealousy of love, the sallies of anger. "Her singular talents for government were founded equally on her temper and on her capacity....esteem by her real virtues, she also engaged their affection by her pretended ones. Few sovereigns of England succeeded to the throne in more difficult... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1996 - 228 pages
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 | Mark Salber Phillips - History - 2000 - 390 pages
...clarify this point. Of Elizabeth, for example, Hume writes that her "singular talents for government were founded equally on her temper and on her capacity....a great command over herself, she soon obtained an uncontrouled ascendant over her people" (4:352). But, he quickly adds, though Elizabeth's "real virtues"... | |
 | Frederick G. Whelan - Philosophy - 2004 - 440 pages
...endowed with a great command over herself, . . . and while she merited all [the] esteem [of her people] by her real virtues, she also engaged their affections by her pretended ones" (H IV, 352). Elizabeth's capacity for dissimulation was apparent in her relations with her captive,... | |
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Her singular talents for government were founded equally on her temper and on her capacity. Endowed with a great command... 
