 | Earl George John Spencer Spencer, Thomas Frognall Dibdin - Incunabula - 1822 - 430 pages
...several children. ' She was,' says Bishop Burnet, ' a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous; foolish but imperious; very uneasy to...him. His passion for her and her strange behaviour to him did so disorder him, that often he was not master of himself, nor capable of minding business,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 644 pages
...mistress, by whom he had five children d. She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious, very uneasy...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application : but he did then so entirely trust the earl... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1823 - 642 pages
...mistress, by whom he had five children d. She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious, very uneasy...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application : but he did then so entirely trust the earl... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1811 - 796 pages
...Burnett, " a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish, but impe. rious ; very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended to be jealous of him." OT Fol. i. 94. The first Duke of Grafton, how. ever, appears to have acted in... | |
 | William Dorset Fellowes - History - 1828 - 708 pages
...between them. — Bishop Burnet says 'she was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous; foolish, but imperious; very uneasy...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which in so critical a time required great application.' * She was daughter of William Villiers, Viscount... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 618 pages
...forced to let a great deal go that he did not like." This peeress, " one of the race of the Villiers, was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vitious...pretended she was jealous of him. His passion for her," adds Bishop Burnet, " and her strange behaviour towards him, did so disorder him, that often he was... | |
 | Thomas Burton - Great Britain - 1828 - 618 pages
...forced to let a great deal go that he did not like." This peeress, " one of the race of the Villiere, was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vitious...pretended she was jealous of him. His passion for her," adds Bishop Burnet, " and her strange behaviour towards him, did so disorder him, that often he was... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 676 pages
...mistress, by whom he had five children e. She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious, very uneasy...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application: but he did then so entirely trust the earl... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 684 pages
...mistress, by whom he had five children e. She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious, very uneasy...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application: but he did then so entirely trust the earl... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1840 - 558 pages
...The Duchess of Cleveland," says Burnet, " was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious, very uneasy...master of himself, nor capable of minding business, which, in so critical a time, required great application." But, as regards the nature of their intercourse,... | |
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She was a woman of great beauty, but most enormously vicious and ravenous ; foolish but imperious, very uneasy to the king, and always carrying on intrigues with other men, while yet she pretended she was jealous of him. His passion for her, and her strange... 
