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    manship was accounted beautiful . From what we have seen of it , it looks more masculine than beautiful . Indeed her si g _* nature is , tall and tremendous _enough to have been that of a

    giants . At the age of fourteen , in her brother Edward ' s reign , she was under the care of her father ' s widow Catherine Parr , who then lived at Chelsea , in one of the

    royal manor houses , occupying part of the site of the present Cheyne row ; a spot , that has become curious from the boisterous gallantry that she seems to

    have permitted from Catherine ' s husband , the Lord Admiral Seymour , brother of the Protector Somerset , —a couple of ambitious men , who both lost their heads in those beautiful

    aristocratic times . Mr Turner , agreeably to his very Protestant but doubtless most sincere good opinion of Elizabeth , revolts from the unceremonious

    love-making of Seymour , and betwixt partiality and modesty suppresses the more awkward details ;* DrLingard , the Catholic historian , sternly brings them forth , and does not disguise his faith in them . _f As we have no

    claim in this place to the courtof-law privileges of history , we shall not repeat these passages ; neither do we hold with either of these respectable writers , in the view they take of Elizabeth ' s character in reference to matters of this nature . Times are to be

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    considered , — manners ,- — < r a $ - toms , —and a thousand _questions still existing , too important to discuss here , but all very

    necessary before we arrive at the candid conclusions of a philosophy which sees justice done to all . Elizabeth partook of more of the weaknesses common to human nature , than her

    eulogizers are willing to allo \ y ; and possessed more virtues _^ than are granted her by her enemies ; and whatever may be the pettier

    details of her history , it is not to be disputed that she was a great Queen , and fit to be surrounded with the great men whose merit she had the sense

    to discern , and the wise generosity to share power and fame with . She perceived the statesman in Cecil , before she came to the throne , and retained hirh with her till he died . She

    partook of her father ' s imperiousness , and of her mother ' s gayer blood ; but she inherited also the greater brain of her grandfather Henry the Seventh , to whom she is said to have borne

    a likeness in countenance : and the mixture of all three produced a Sovereign , not indeed free from very petty defects ( for she was excessively fond of

    flattery , jealous even of a fine gown , and so fond of dress herself , that she would change it daily for months together ) but great in the main , able to toftderstand the true interests of lier country abroad and at home ,

    4 History of the Reigns of Edward the Sixth , Mary , atid Elizabeth . By Stiaron Turner , - « Vol . IV . p . 148 . _f History of England , & c . By the _Rfcv . John Ungard . Vol . IV . p . 401 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 1, 1837, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_01071837/page/5/