It has been my pleasant duty to consider carefully in chronological with her, he would sanction
everything at oncehe answered.
order a great mass of diplomatic documents of the time of Elizabeth, in which are reflected,
almost from day to day, the continually shifting aspects of political affairs, and the varying attitudes of the Queen and her ministers in dealing therewith. I have
been struck with the failure of, who have painted their pictures with a large brush, to explain or adequately account for what is so
often looked upon as the perverse fickleness of perhaps the greatest sovereign that ever occupied the English throne; and I have come to the conclusion that the best
way in which a just appreciation can be formed of the fixity of purpose and consummate statecraft which underlay her apparent levity, is to follow in close detail
the varying circumstances and combinations which prompted the bewildering mutability of her policy.
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