| Charles Campbell - 1860 - 764 Seiten
...was tried in Virginia, and convicted, but subsequently pardoned by James the Second. Evelynf says: "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury, and...gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulncss of God. (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king... | |
| John Thomas Smith - 1861 - 470 Seiten
...was reduced, by the touch of death, to an equality with the beggar. " I can never forget," says ho, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King... | |
| Charles Abel Heurtley - 1862 - 326 Seiten
...in the Court of Charles the Second, — the last Sunday in the life of that profligate Monarch : '- I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King... | |
| John Evelyn - 1862 - 446 Seiten
...came into England, which made her. universally beloved. Thus concluded this sad and not joyful day. 1 can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1862 - 880 Seiten
...1684-5 had been spent by tlie Court at Whitehall, amid the gaieties common to the season. Evelyn could # \ T K hfi λ+ ~ y ^<@ Xl^(' qම,м Q 9 O % V SeYP /G E & a total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) ' which he was witness of; 'the King sitting... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 516 Seiten
...inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying with bis concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland [Castlemaine], Mazarin,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1868 - 662 Seiten
...way of moral, at the close of his account of Charles the Second, when the pious diarist breaks out : 'I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulncss of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the king... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1868 - 684 Seiten
...of moral, at the close of his account of Charles the Second, when the pious diarist breaks out : ' I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the king... | |
| 1868 - 438 Seiten
...state of things at court may be seen in the following from the pen of a devoted loyalist of the time: "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God, it being Sunday, which this day se'enight I was witness of. The king sitting... | |
| Henry Allon - 1862 - 584 Seiten
...zealous royalist, of what was seen in the court of Charles II., only the Sunday before his death. ' I can never ' forget the inexpressible luxury and...gaming and all ' dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being ' Sunday evening), which this day sen'night I was witness of. ' The... | |
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