{"product_id":"2940011947773","title":"SKETCHES OF CELIBATE WORTHIES","description":"Scanned, proofed and corrected from the original hardcover edition for enjoyable reading.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQueen Elizabeth I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet Horace\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet Virgil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErasmus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSir Isaac Newton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBishop Butler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImmanuel Kant\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Thomas Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Poet Cowper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Hannah More\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFather Mathew\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Dick\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea selection from the first chapter\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQUEEN ELIZABETH.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"QUEEN BESS\" may appropriately be placed at the head of this batch of Worthies—not that she was the worthiest of them by any means, but as being a queen of whose glorious reign Englishmen have reason to be proud. \" Never,\" says the late John Richard Green, \" had the fortunes of England sunk to a lower ebb than at the moment when Elizabeth mounted the throne. The country was humiliated by defeat, and brought to the verge of rebellion by the bloodshed and misgovernment of Mary's reign.\" It was the business of Elizabeth to change all this, and she did so triumphantly. Whatever may have been her faults—and they were many—she nevertheless deserves, for her courage, her patriotism, and her zeal for her people's welfare, our highest admiration and respect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe was rather more than sixteen-and-a-half years younger than her half-sister Mary, daughter of Henry VIII.'s divorced queen Catherine of Arragon, and was born at Greenwich on the 7th of September, 1533. Her mother, Anne Boleyn, was a daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, and Maid of Honour to Henry's first wife. Whilst occupying this position—unfortunately as it happened for herself—she gained the king's affections, and the result, as everyone knows, was that the king resolved to get divorced from queen Catherine, and to marry Anne Boleyn. Unable to obtain the Pope's consent to his divorce, Henry, whose proceedings had been sanctioned by his own subservient ecclesiastics, determined to take the matter into his own hands, and to repudiate altogether the papal authority. Hence, without waiting any longer for the approval of the Roman Pontiff, he married Anne Boleyn privately on the 14th of November, 1532. On Easter Eve, 1533, she was publicly proclaimed queen, and on the 1st of June in that year underwent the ceremony of coronation. On the 7th of the September following, as has been already stated, her daughter Elizabeth was born.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore the princess Elizabeth was three years old, a tragic fate befell her mother. Suspicions against her having been maliciously instilled into the king's capricious mind, she was sent to the Tower, and on the 17th of May, 1536, was beheaded. \"The very next day\" the king was married to another! Jane Seymour, who had been Maid of Honour to Queen Anne, as Anne had been to Catherine before her, had won his fluctuating affections, and became thus hurriedly his third wife, on the death of her predecessor, Anne. Prince Edward, who succeeded afterwards to the throne of England as Edward VI., was the issue of their union. He was born at Hampton Court on the 12th of October, 1537, when his half-sister, the princess Elizabeth, was four years old, and his other half-sister, Mary, four months short of twenty-one. Henry's third queen, Jane, died within a dozen days of the birth of Edward.","brand":"OGB","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152364847344,"sku":"2940011947773","price":1.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011947773_p0.jpg?v=1763551519","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011947773","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}