Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S., Author of the "Sylva": To which is Subjoined the Private Correspondence Between King Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas, and Between Sir Edward Hyde, Afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, Volumen 3

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H. Colburn, 1854
 

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Página 254 - Apostle), and are built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone...
Página 155 - And in this choyce, there would be some reguard had to the well sounding, and more harmonious words, and such as are numerous, and apt to fall gracefully into their cadences and periods, and so recommend themselves at the very first sight as it were ; others, which (like false stones) will never shine, in whatever light they be placed ; but embase the rest.
Página 162 - I beseech your Honour, let us not be reputed barbarians ; or if at last we must be so, let me not be the executor of so much inhumanity ; when the price of one good subject's life is (rightly considered) of more value than the wealth of the Indies.
Página 103 - Time will do alone. And if you consider that of the bravest men in the world we find the seldomest stories of their children and the Apostles had none, and thousands of the worthiest persons that sound most in story died...
Página iii - EVELYN'S Diary and Corresponddence, with the Private Correspondence of Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Sir Edward Hyde (Earl of Clarendon) and Sir Richard Browne. Edited from the Original MSS. by W. Bray, FAS 4 vols. NS 45 Engravings (after Vandyke, Lely, Kneller, and Jamieson, &c.). NB — This edition contains 130 letters from Evelyn and his wife, contained in no other edition. PEPYS
Página 78 - But there could not be given to me a greater and more persuasive testimony of the reality of your piety and care than that you pass to greater degrees of caution and the love of God. It is the work of your life, and I perceive you betake yourself heartily to it. The God of heaven and earth prosper you and accept you ! I am well pleased that you have read over my last book ; and give God thanks that I have reason to believe that it is accepted by God, and by some good men.
Página 127 - God about that time to lay his gentle hand upon me ; for I had beene in the worst of our winter weather sent for to Dublin by our late anabaptist commissioners ; and found the evil of it so great, that in my going I began to be ill : but in my return, had my ill redoubled...
Página 94 - ... to receive any commands, the obeying of which might signify my great regards of you, I could with some more confidence converse with a person so obliging ; but I am...
Página 68 - ... uncomfortable weather. Some such discourse would be highly seasonable now that the daily sacrifice is ceasing, and that all the exercise of your functions is made criminal, that the light of Israel is quenched.
Página 151 - It is not allowed in any city of Christendom so much as in this one town of London, where there are more wretched and obscene plays permitted than in all the world besides. At Paris 3 days ; at Rome 2 weekly ; and at the other cities of Florence, Venice, &c.

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