Margaret Cavendish Quotes
For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.
Cavendish, Margaret. The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing-World. A. Maxwell, 1666.
He was never shot by the people, but executed after a military coup.
For example,
the greatest of our Presidents were the ones who led the nation at times of great danger and threat.
Margaret Lucas Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction-writer, and playwright. Born Margaret Lucas, she was the youngest sister of the royalists Sir John Lucas and Sir Charles Lucas, who owned the manor of St John's Abbey, Colchester. She became an attendant on Queen Henrietta Maria and travelled with her into exile in France, living for a time at the court of the young King Louis XIV. She became the second wife of William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1645, when he was a marquess.
