Nothing is more revolting in the Queen, but nothing is more characteristic, than her shameless mendacity. It was an age of political lying, but in the profusion and recklessness of her lies Elizabeth stood without a peer in Christendom. An Introduction to English Politics - Page 425by John Mackinnon Robertson - 1900 - 515 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1874 - 1076 pages
...nothing is more characteristic, than her shameless mendacity. It was an age of political lying, but in the profusion and recklessness of her lies Elizabeth stood without a peer in Christendom. A falsehood was to her simply an intellectual means of meeting a difficulty ; and the ease with which... | |
| English literature - 1876 - 606 pages
...nothing is more characteristic than her shameless mendacity. It was an age of political lying, but in the profusion and recklessness of her lies Elizabeth stood without a peer in Christendom.'§ ' No woman ever lived,' he adds, in his habitual tone of exaggeration, ' who was so totally destitute... | |
| English literature - 1876 - 604 pages
...nothing is more characteristic than her shameless mendacity. It was an age of political lying, but in the profusion and recklessness of her lies Elizabeth stood without a peer in Christendom.'§ ' No woman ever lived,' he adds, in his habitual tone of exaggeration, ' who was so totally destitute... | |
| John Sherren Brewer - English literature - 1881 - 518 pages
...nothing is more characteristic, than her shameless mendacity. It was an age of political lying, but in the profusion and recklessness of her lies Elizabeth stood without a peer in Christendom.' 6 ' No woman ever lived,' he adds, in his habitual tone of exaggeration,' who was so totally destitute... | |
| Arthur Martin Wheeler - Great Britain - 1886 - 400 pages
...more characteristic of the queen than her shameless mendacity. It was an age of political lying, but in the profusion and recklessness of her lies Elizabeth stood without a peer in Christendom. A falsehood was to her simply an intellectual means of meeting a difficulty ; and the ease with which... | |
| Lydia Hoyt Farmer - Queens - 1887 - 730 pages
...nothing is more characteristic, than her shameless mendacity. It was an age of political lying, but in the profusion and recklessness of her lies Elizabeth stood without a peer in Christendom. A falsehood was to her simply an intellectual means of meeting :i dilliculty. " She had a quick eye... | |
| John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1893 - 546 pages
...nothing is more characteristic, than her shameless mendacity. It was an age of political lying, but in the profusion and recklessness of her lies Elizabeth stood without a peer in SEC. in Christendom. A falsehood was to her simply an intellectual means ELIZABKTH of meeting a difficulty... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1896 - 800 pages
...nothing is more characteristic, than her shameless mendacity. It was an age of political lying, but in the profusion and recklessness of her lies Elizabeth stood without a peer in Christendom. A falsehood was to her simply an intellectual means of meeting a difficulty ; and the ease with which... | |
| Albert Walkley - Church history - 1897 - 180 pages
...with their lips or to put into acts their real inner faith. " It was an age of political lying, but in the profusion and recklessness of her lies Elizabeth stood without a peer in Christendom" (Green). Now such a woman could not understand those who must speak out God's truth in them. And those... | |
| John Richard Green - Great Britain - 1898 - 520 pages
...more characteristic of the Queen than her shameless mendacity. It was an age of political lying, but in the profusion and recklessness of her lies Elizabeth stood without a peer in Christendom. A falsehood was to her simply an intellectual means of meeting a difficulty ; and the ease with which... | |
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