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This accessible, immensely readable biography of Elizabeth I by Jacob Abbott is part of the 'Makers of History' series, and is the best single-volume introduction to the life and times of the Virgin Queen.
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Travelers, in ascending the Thames by the steamboat from Rotterdam, on their return from an excursion to the Rhine, have often their attention strongly attracted by what appears to be a splendid palace on the banks of the river at Greenwich.
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It will moderate, however, any tendency to censoriousness in our mode of uttering them, if we consider to how little advantage we should ourselves appear, if all the words of fretfulness and irritability which we have ever spoken, all our insincerity and double-dealing, our selfishness, our pride, our petty resentments, our caprice, and our countless follies, were exposed as fully to the public gaze as were those of this renowned and glorious, but unhappy queen
This accessible, immensely readable biography of Elizabeth I by Jacob Abbott is part of the 'Makers of History' series, and is the best single-volume introduction to the life and times of the Virgin Queen.