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" Upon this occasion she entered into a pretty disputable comparison between carving, painting, and working with the needle, affirming painting in her own opinion for the most commendable quality. I answered her grace, I could skill of neither of them,... "
Queen Elizabeth and her times, original letters selected from the private ... - Page 308
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Queen Elizabeth and Her Times: A Series of Original Letters ..., Volume 1

Thomas Wright - Great Britain - 1838 - 610 pages
...Quene's Majestie, to thinke herself rather princelike entertayned, then hardly restrayned of any thing that was fit for her Grace's estate ; and for my owne...her presence chamber I imagined, which was, that her servantBethun had given her some privye note of me ; for as sone as he espied me, he forsake our acquayntance...
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Queen Elizabeth and Her Times: A Series of Original Letters ..., Volume 1

Thomas Wright - Great Britain - 1838 - 578 pages
...working with the needil, affirming painting in her owne opinion for the most commendable qualitie. I answered her Grace, I could skill of neither of them,...presence chamber I imagined, which was, that her servant Betbun had given her some privye note of me ; for as sone as he espied me, he forsake our acquayntance...
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Queen Elizabeth and Her Times: A Series of Original Letters ..., Volume 1

Thomas Wright - Great Britain - 1838 - 576 pages
...working with the needil, affirming painting in her owne opinion for the most commendable qualitie. I answered her Grace, I could skill of neither of them, but that I have read Piclnrtt to be reritax falsa-. With this she closed up her talke, and bidding me farewell, retyred...
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Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots: Now First Published from the ..., Volume 2

Mary (Queen of Scots), Agnes Strickland - 1845 - 504 pages
...working with the needle, affirming painting in her own opinion for the most commendable quality. I answered her grace, I could skill of neither of them,...Pictura to be veritas falsa. With this she closed up her talk, and bidding me farewell, retired into her privy chamber. " She said nothing directly of yourself...
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Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses ...

Agnes Strickland - 1856 - 428 pages
...working with the needle, affirming, ' painting, in her own opinion, to be the most commendable quality/ I answered her Grace, ' I could skill of neither of...but that I have read Pictura to be veritas falsa. 1 With this she closed up her talk, and, bidding me farewell, retired to her privy chamber." Sketched...
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Mary Stuart

Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland - Princes - 1856 - 424 pages
...working with the needle, affirming, ' painting, in her own opinion, to be the most commendable quality/ I answered her Grace, ' I could skill of neither of them, but that I have read Piclura to be veritas falsa.'' With this she closed up her talk, and, bidding me farewell, retired...
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Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected ..., Volume 6

Agnes Strickland - Princes - 1857 - 380 pages
...working with the needle, affirming 'painting, in her own opinion, to be the most commendable quality.' I answered her Grace, ' I could skill of neither of...to be veritas falsa.' With this she closed up her talk, and, bidding me farewell, retired to her privy chamber." Sketched by an avowedly unfriendly pen...
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Pen and Pencil, Volume 1

Mary Balmanno - Art - 1858 - 348 pages
...workingwith the needle, affirming painting, in her own opinion, for the most commendable quality. I answered her Grace I could skill of neither of them,...Pictura to be veritas falsa. With this she closed up her talk, and bidding me farewell, retired into her privy chamber. She said nothing directly of yourself...
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The Century of Queens: With Sketches of Some Princes of Literature and Art

Great Britain - 1873 - 302 pages
...and workingwith the needle,affirming painting, in her own opinion,for the most commendable quality. I answered her Grace I could skill of neither of them,...Pictura to be veritas falsa. With this she closed up her talk, and bidding me farewell, retired into her privy chamber. She said nothing directly of yourself...
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Maitland of Lethington: And the Scotland of Mary Stuart, Volume 1

John Skelton - Scotland - 1887 - 418 pages
...and working with the needle, affirming painting in her opinion for the most commendable quality. I answered her Grace I could skill of neither of them, but that I had read ' Pictura' to be veritas falsa. With this she closed up her talk, and, bidding me farewell,...
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