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See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
HAMILTON, See also:ELIZABETH (1758–1816) , See also:British author, was See also:born at See also:Belfast, of Scottish extraction, on the 21st of See also:July 1758. Her See also:father's See also:death in 1759 See also:left his wife so embarrassed that Elizabeth was adopted in 1762 by her paternal aunt, Mrs See also:Marshall, who lived in See also:Scotland, near See also:Stirling. In 1788 See also:Miss Hamilton went to live with her See also:brother See also:Captain See also:Charles Hamilton (1753–1792), who was engaged on his See also:translation of the Hedaya. Prompted by her brother's associations, she produced her
is more justly measured than See also:Madison's (in 1831) : " That he possessed intellectual See also:powers of the first See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, and the moral qualities of integrity and See also:honour in a captivating degree, has been awarded him by a See also:suffrage now universal. If his theory of See also:government deviated from the republican See also:standard he had the candour to avow it, and the greater merit of co-operating faithfully in maturing and supporting a See also:system which was not his choice."
In See also:person Hamilton was rather See also:short and slender; in See also:carriage, erect, dignified and graceful. Deep-set, changeable, dark eyes vivified his See also:mobile features, and set off his See also:light See also:hair and See also:fair, ruddy complexion. His See also:head in the famous See also:Trumbull portrait is boldly poised and very striking. The captivating See also:charm of his See also:manners and conversation is attested by all who knew him, and in See also:familiar See also:life he was artlessly See also:simple. See also:Friends he won readily, and he held them in devoted See also:attachment by the solid See also:worth of a See also:frank, ardent, generous, warm-hearted and high-minded See also:character. Versatile as were his intellectual powers, his nature seems comparatively simple. A See also:firm will, tireless See also:energy, aggressive courage and bold self-confidence were its leading qualities; the word " intensity " perhaps best sums up his character. His Scotch and Gallic strains of ancestry are evident; his countenance was decidedly Scotch; his See also:nervous speech and bearing and vehement temperament. rather See also:French; in his mind, agility, clarity and penetration were matched with logical solidity. The remarkable quality of his mind See also:lay in the rare See also:combination of acute See also:analysis and grasp of detail with See also:great comprehensiveness of thought. So far as his writings show, he was almost wholly lacking in See also:humour, and in See also:imagination little less so. He certainly had wit, but it is hard to believe he could have had any See also:touch of See also:fancy. In public speaking he often combined a rhetorical effectiveness and emotional intensity that might take the See also:place of imagination, and enabled him, on the coldest theme, to move deeply the feelings of his
Letters of a Hindoo Rajah in 1796. Soon after, with her See also:sister Mrs See also:Blake, she settled at See also:Bath, where she published in 1800 the See also:Memoirs of See also:Modern Philosophers, a See also:satire on the admirers of the French Revolution. In 1801–1802 appeared her Letters on See also:Education. After travelling through See also:Wales and Scotland for nearly two years, the sisters took up their See also:abode in 18o3 at See also:Edinburgh. In 1804 Mrs Hamilton, as she then preferred to be called, published her Life of See also:Agrippina, wife of Germanicus; and in the same See also:year she received a See also:pension from government. The Cotlagers of Glenburnie (1808), which is her best-known See also:work, was described by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Scott as " a picture of the rural habits of Scotland, of striking and impressive fidelity." She also published Popular Essays on the Elementary Principles of the Human Mind (1812), and Hints addressed to the Patrons and See also:Directors of Public See also:Schools (1815). She died at See also:Harrogate on the 23rd of July 1816.
Memoirs of Mrs Elizabeth Hamilton, by Miss Benger, were published in 1818.
End of Article: HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
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