World-noted women : or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages . andmodesty, her rare excellence in learning, her holy meekness andfirm piety, are all so many sources of legitimate pride to hercountrymen and countrywomen. Lady Jane Grey forms an ideal of youth, beauty, worth and ac>complishment, that gives to the old, when they think of her, thesense of possessing an ever-living daughter in immortal bloom ofpromise; and to the young, a feehng of affectionate esteem, astowards an honoured and beloved sister, of whom Death itself can-not deprive them. Fuller, in his Holy State, epi
World-noted women : or, Types of womanly attributes of all lands and ages . andmodesty, her rare excellence in learning, her holy meekness andfirm piety, are all so many sources of legitimate pride to hercountrymen and countrywomen. Lady Jane Grey forms an ideal of youth, beauty, worth and ac>complishment, that gives to the old, when they think of her, thesense of possessing an ever-living daughter in immortal bloom ofpromise; and to the young, a feehng of affectionate esteem, astowards an honoured and beloved sister, of whom Death itself can-not deprive them. Fuller, in his Holy State, epitomizes Lady Jane Greys de-scription in these words:— She had the innocency of childhood,the beauty of youth, the solidity of middle, the gravity of old age,and all at eighteen : the birth of a princess, the learning of a clerk,the life of a saint, yet the death of a malefactor, for her parentsoffences. He, in his own original manner adds :— Let all greatladies who bear her name, imitate her virtues, to whom I wish herinward holiness, but far more outward \ ^^a
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