 | John Evelyn - 1901 - 390 páginas
...yard, or by water, dressed in several dresses. The King is expected here this day ; the best parlor is pretty clean for him to be entertained in. The King pays for all he has." 9th June, 1698. To Deptford, to see how miserably the Czar had left my house, after three months making... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1901 - 392 páginas
...yard, or by water, dressed in several dresses. The King is expected here this day ; the best parlor is pretty clean for him to be entertained in. The King pays for all he has.n gth June, 1698. To Deptford, to see how miserably the Czar had left my house, after three months... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer - 1903 - 482 páginas
...seldom at home a whole day, very often in the King's yard or by water, dressed in several dresses. The King is expected here this day ; the best parlour...be entertained in. The King pays for all he has." Peter the Great was also in the habit of frequenting the different workshops and manufactories, and... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1906 - 538 páginas
...seldom at home a whole day, very often in the King's Yard, or by water, dressed in several dresses. The King is expected here this day ; the best parlour...be entertained in. The King pays for all he has." 1 [According to Dews' Deptford, 2nd ed., 1884, p. 183, there is (or was) " in one of the old shipbuilding... | |
 | John Evelyn, Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1906 - 532 páginas
...seldom at home a whole day, very often in the King's Yard, or by water, dressed in several dresses. The King is expected here this day, the best parlour is...be entertained in. The King pays for all he has." Capt. Dampier,1 who had ben a famous buccaneer, had brought hither the painted Prince Job,2 and printed... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1906 - 536 páginas
...and estimate the repairs, for which they allowed £150 in their report to the Lords of the Treasury. I then went to see the foundation of the Hall and Chapel at Greenwich Hospital.3 6th August. I dined with Mr. Pepys, where was Captain Dampier,4 who had been a famous buccaneer,... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - 1908 - 446 páginas
...yard, or by water, dressed in several dresses. The king is expected there this day ; the best parlor is pretty clean for him to be entertained in. The king pays for all he has."f But this was not all : Mr. Evelyn had a favorite holly hedge, through which, it is said, the... | |
 | Alice Birkhead - 1915 - 220 páginas
...the King's Yard [the dockyard] or by water, dressed in several dresses. The King is expected there this day ; the best parlour is pretty clean for him...be entertained in. The King pays for all he has." Peter spent much time in sailing on the 53 Peter the Great Thames, and walked through the streets with... | |
 | 1855 - 1216 páginas
...yard, or by water, dressed in several dresses. The king is expected here this day ; the best parlor is pretty clean for him to be entertained in. The king pays for all he has." London, the gardener, divided his report (it is dated May ninth, sixteen hundred and ninety-eight)... | |
 | Gillian Darley - 2006 - 426 páginas
...observe shipbuilding) or on the water, 'dressed in several dresses'. That day the king was expected: 'the best parlour is pretty clean for him to be entertained in.' 81 The famous story about the tsar being pushed in a wheelbarrow through Evelyn's glorious holly hedges,... | |
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... 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,... 
