de Vere, Or, the Man of Independence Volume 3 by Robert Plumer Ward
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Author: Robert Plumer Ward
Number of Pages: 64 pages
Published Date: 01 Oct 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231851326
Download Link: de Vere, Or, the Man of Independence Volume 3
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Author: Robert Plumer Ward
Number of Pages: 64 pages
Published Date: 01 Oct 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231851326
Download Link: de Vere, Or, the Man of Independence Volume 3
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 edition. Excerpt: ...said Lord Mowbray, shaking his head, "would, under such a man, endanger a stronger administration than ours: nor should I be surprised if Wentworth, and perhaps even your cousin, flown as they are, were at the bottom of it." Constance thought within herself, how little her father could know his nephew, when he attributed such designs to him; and her respect for the open character of Wentworth equally exempted him from the imputation. In fact, the death of Beaufort, and the effect this had produced on many characters whom, from what she knew of them, she honoured in the world, had given a shock to her mind, from which she had not recovered; and the present conversation exhibiting (as even her filial reverence could not prevent her from imagining) the most childish fears, was any thing but agreeable to her feelings or her principles. Ambition, indeed, as she had seen it conducted, had already had too sinister an effect upon private happiness, to make her quite so favourable to it as, in her natural sentiments, considering it as a noble passion, she had originally been. We have not denied that she had been somewhat dazzled at the influence which, as a young and elegant female, she was told she might acquire among those who conducted the state; and, for a moment, her love of all virtue, public as well as private, gave her an elevation, to the pleasure of which she yielded. But her modesty first (always the surest index to inform a woman whether she is right or wrong, ) and afterwards her judgment, nay, her very pride itself, combined to make her tremble on the threshold, at entering on such a career. There was nothing she thought so little a woman's province as party; and she looked with little reverence on the busy exertion of a...
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