| Arthur Collins - 1812 - 824 ページ
...Sir William Cavendish. To sum up her character with the brevity here required, she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct ; proud, furious,...She was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money lender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. When disengaged from these employmeuts,... | |
| 1822 - 394 ページ
...She w»sa woman of a masculine understanding and conduct ; proud, furious, stilish, and unfeeling; a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money-lender, a farmer, and a trader in lead, coals, and timber. When disengaged from these employments, she intrigued alternately... | |
| 1822 - 206 ページ
...interest, and happiness of his family, to the aggrandizement of her children by Sir William Cavendish. She was a woman of » masculine understanding and conduct ; proud, furious, selfish, and unfeeling : a builder, a bnyer and seller of estates, a money-lender, a farmer, and a trader in lead, coals,... | |
| Robert Simpson - 1826 - 614 ページ
...LODGE, in his Illustrations of British History, gives the following character of this celebrated Lady, " She was a woman of masculine understanding and conduct,...She was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money lender, a farmer, a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. When disengaged from these employments,... | |
| Stephen Glover - 1830 - 214 ページ
...Lodge, in his Illustrations of British History, gives the following character of this celebrated lady. " She was a woman of masculine understanding and conduct,...She was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money lender, a farmer, a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. When disengaged from these employments,... | |
| John Burke - 1832 - 768 ページ
...Shrewsbury, the richest and most powerful peer of his time. To sum up her character, she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct ; proud, furious,...farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. She lived to a great old age, and rf. in 1607, immensely rich." The F.arl of Shrewsbury was J. in 1590,... | |
| William Carpenter - 1837 - 894 ページ
...her character, she was a woman of a masculine understanding and conduct ; proud, furious, seltish, and unfeeling. She was a builder, a buyer and seller...farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. She lived to a great old age, and died in 1607, immensely rich." The Earl of Shrewsbury was succeeded,... | |
| Rev. George Hall - 1839 - 572 ページ
...Lodge, in his Illustrations of British History, gives (he following character of this celebrated lady. " She was a woman of masculine understanding and conduct,...She was a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money lender, a farmer, a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. When disengaged from these employments,... | |
| Richard Brown (architect.) - 1841 - 618 ページ
...Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, who built Hardwick, in Derbyshire, in 1570, was said to have been a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money-lender,...farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals, and timber. A curious prophecy is mentioned relating to this lady, viz., that whenever she discontinued building... | |
| Katherine Thomson - 1843 - 904 ページ
...sinking into depression. She was not, indeed, like the famous Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, " a builder, a buyer and seller of estates, a money-lender, a farmer, and a merchant of lead, coals, and tinder;'" but she was forced to exercise the jurisdiction of her castle fort, with masculine energy;... | |
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