The Diary of John Evelyn, Esq., F.R.S.: To which are Added a Selection from His Familiar Letters and 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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Página 96 - LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.
Página 141 - There is a house full of people, and right nasty. The Czar lies next your library, and dines in the parlour next your study. He dines at ten o'clock and six at night, is very seldom at home a whole day, very often in the king's yard or by water, dressed in several dresses. The king is expected there this day ; the best parlour is pretty clean for him to be entertained in. The king pays for all he has.
Página 152 - This is indeed wyt %f«<rT'* gt "yaSxi it is ac umSsfua ,»? -/&«.<;, to the edification of our needs, and the greatest and most holy charity. 3. Our communication must in its just season be ixi)*7,*«t, we must reprove our sinning brother; for the wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy...
Página 271 - Versus quidem meos cantat etiam, formatque cithara non artifice aliquo docente, sed amore qui magister est optimus. His ex causis, in spem certissimam adducor perpetuam nobis maioremque in dies futuram esse concordiam. Non enim aetatem meam aut corpus, quae paulatim occidunt ac senescunt, sed gloriam diligi t.
Página 30 - Saviour, and a world of figures painted by Verrio. The throne where the King and Queen sit is very glorious, in a closet above, just opposite to the altar.
Página 65 - Olympic years, and synchronisms ; we asked him questions which could not be resolved without considerable meditation and judgment, nay of some particulars of the Civil Laws, of the Digest and Code. He gave a stupendous account of both natural and moral philosophy, and even in metaphysics.
Página 282 - Clergy, which had beene presented to you if I had thought [them] fit for notice, or to send to my dearest friends. " Dear Sir, I pray let me hear from you as often as you can, for you will very much oblige me, if you will continue to love me still.
Página 125 - ... and the pump he had erected that serves water to his garden, and to passengers, with an inscription, and brings from a filthy part of the Thames near it a most perfect and pure water.
Página 435 - ... so as one cannot tell whether they were drawn from any of their friends or ancestors, or the picture of some porter or squalid chimney sweeper, whose prolix beard and wrinkled forehead might passe him for a philosopher. I am in perfect indignation at this folly, as oft as I consider what extravagant sums are given for a dry scalp of some (forsooth) Italian painting, be it of Raphael or Titian...
Página 266 - Thursday shall be a music meeting at conversation hours. Every person of the Society shall render some public account of his studies weekly if thought fit, and especially shall be recommended the promotion of experimental knowledge, as the principal end of the institution. There shall be a decent habit and uniform used in the college. One month in the year may be spent in London, or any of the Universities, or in a perambulation for the public benefit, &c., with what other orders shall be thought...

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