 | William Robertson - 1811 - 468 pages
...Elizabeth's days ; who, that has not the best opportunities of informing himself, could venture to relate any recent transactions ? I must therefore...this history of the Tudors bestows on that of the Stuarts. Had I been prudent I should have begun with it. I care not to boast, but I will venture to... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1811 - 620 pages
...Queen Elizabeth's days; who, that has not the best opportunities of informing himself, could venture to relate any recent transactions ? I must therefore...proceeded so far, if I had not acted as I did. You wiH see what light and force this History of the Tudors bestows on that of the Stewarts. Had I been... | |
 | William Robertson - 1822 - 506 pages
...Elizabeth's days ; who, that has not the best opportunities of informing himself, could venture to relate any recent transactions ? I must therefore...this scheme of the English History, in which I had ness towards the queen; and that, on the contrary, almost all his correspondents accuse him of an undue... | |
 | William Robertson - 1825 - 498 pages
...Elizabeth's days ; who, that has not the best opportunities of informing himself, could venture to relate any recent transactions? I must therefore have...the Tudors bestows on that of the Stewarts. Had I been1 prudent, I should have begun with it. I care not to boast, but I will venture to say, that I... | |
 | William Robertson - 1828 - 746 pages
...opportunities of informing himself, could venture to relate any recent transactions? I must therefore hare in India, we may conclude it to be one of the first...progress in that career. The wisdom of the east was ear ihis history of the Tudors bestows on that of the Stewarts. Had I been prudent, I should have begun... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 430 pages
...Elizabeth's days ; who, that has not the best opportunities of informing himself, could venture to relate any recent transactions ? I must therefore...this history of the Tudors bestows on that of the Stuarts. Had I been prudent I should have begun with it. I care not to boast, but I will venture to... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 410 pages
...Elizabeth's days ; who, that has not the best opportunities of informing himself, could venture to relate any recent transactions ? I must therefore...this history of the Tudors bestows on that of the Stuarts. Had I been prudent I should have begun with it. I care not to boast, but I will venture to... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 422 pages
...Elizabeth's days ; who, that has not the best opportunities of informing himself, could venture to relate any recent transactions ? I must therefore...this history of the Tudors bestows on that of the Stuarts. Had I been prudent I should have begun with it. I care not to boast, but I will venture to... | |
 | William Robertson - 1837 - 632 pages
...queen Elizabeth's days; who, that has not the best opportunities of informing himself, could venture to relate any recent transactions ? I must therefore...bestows on that of the Stewarts. Had I been prudent 1 should have begun with it." The alarm which Dr. Robertson conceived from the rivalship of his fnend... | |
 | John Hill Burton, David Hume - 1846 - 566 pages
...Queen Elizabeth's days, who, that has not the best opportunities of informing himself, could venture to relate any recent transactions ? I must, therefore,...this History of the Tudors bestows on that of the Stuarts. Had I been prudent, I should have begun with it. I care not to boast, but I will venture to... | |
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... expressed your wish that I should not write this period. I could not write downward. For when you find occasion, by new discoveries, to correct your opinion with regard to facts which passed in Queen Elizabeth's days, who, that has not the best opportunities... 
