...scene in which he was engaged well illustrates his character. " I can never forget," says Evelyn, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God, being Sunday evening, which this day se'nnight I was witness of— the king sitting and toying with...

...extract from " Evelyn's Diary :"— I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness...(it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of ; the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine,...

...from " Evelyn's Diary :" — " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day sc'nnight I was witness of; the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland,...

...was reduced, by the touch of death, to an equality with the beggar, " I can never forget," says he, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...(it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine,...

...which his pen has so vividly described. " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total...(it being Sunday Evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine...

...England, which made her universally beloved. Thus concluded this sad and not joyful day. I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...(it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine,...

...well-known passage in John Evelyn's Diary : I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profanenes», gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total...forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this d»y ee'nuight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland,...

...amusements of the evening, often disgraced by open licentiousness. " I can never forget," says Evelyn, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...(it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of." This was at the close of the sovereign's wretched career. " Six days after," adds...

...picture of a Sunday preserved by Evelyn. " I can never forget," says the high-minded author of Sylva, "the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, a total forgetful ness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of;...

...picture of a Sunday preserved by Evelyn. " I can never forget," says the high-minded author of Sylva, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, a total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of;...