World-noted women : or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages . ^^V 0 C^ W9?ry L/A^^y LADY JANE GREY. Lady Jane Grey affords an illustrious instance of youthful erudi-tion in a lady, high-born, beautiful, and modest. She was of royaldescent, yet meek and unassuming ; learned, yet simple. She hadneither vanity, pride, nor ambition; although her charms of per-son, her acquii-ements, and her exalted rank, might, in a younglady of weaker mind, have generated all three. Unfortunately, her family connections were not equally freefrom these defects: for they were vain of Lady Janes beauty
World-noted women : or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages . ^^V 0 C^ W9?ry L/A^^y LADY JANE GREY. Lady Jane Grey affords an illustrious instance of youthful erudi-tion in a lady, high-born, beautiful, and modest. She was of royaldescent, yet meek and unassuming ; learned, yet simple. She hadneither vanity, pride, nor ambition; although her charms of per-son, her acquii-ements, and her exalted rank, might, in a younglady of weaker mind, have generated all three. Unfortunately, her family connections were not equally freefrom these defects: for they were vain of Lady Janes beauty,and took advantage of her gentleness to treat her with severity,and ultimately with cruelty: they were proud of her endowments,yet behaved as if she had neither sense, feeling, nor volition ; andthey made her birth and position a source of their selfish ambi-tion, sacrificing her to it without remorse, or even the commonnatural affection of kindred. Lady Jane Grey was born in 1537, at Broadgate, her fathersseat in Leicestershire. She was of the blood-royal of England,be
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