| Charles Abel Heurtley - 1862 - 324 páginas
...of Charles the Second, — the last Sunday in the life of that profligate Monarch : '- 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, Cleaveland, and Mazarine,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1862 - 882 páginas
...had been spent by tlie Court at Whitehall, amid the gaieties common to the season. Evelyn could never forget 'the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, a total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) ' which he was witness of; 'the King sitting... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 516 páginas
...Evelyn describes it at a later time. "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 bis concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland [Castlemaine],... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1868 - 684 páginas
...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...(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,... | |
| Henry Allon - 1862 - 584 páginas
...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 profaneness, gaming...being ' Sunday evening), which this day sen'night I was witness of. ' The king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portland, ' Cleaveland, Mazarin,... | |
| 1868 - 438 páginas
...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...were, total forgetfulness of God, it being Sunday, which this day se'enight I was witness of. The king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth,... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1868 - 662 páginas
...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... | |
| Andrew Steinmetz - 1870 - 502 páginas
...times of Charles II. Writing on the day when James II. was proclaimed king, Evelyn says, ' 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, Cleaveland, and Mazarine,... | |
| John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1870 - 362 páginas
...rather than the sentiments which the recorded events occasioned at the time of their occurrence, ' the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'ennight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland,... | |
| 1870 - 972 páginas
...II. was proclaimed king, Evelyn says: "lean never forget the inexpressible luxury and profancness, 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,... | |
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