Some Account of the Life of Rachael Wriothesley, Lady RussellLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1819 - 150 Seiten |
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... Duchess of Devonshire , her only surviving child . That the letters of Lord Russell should not have been pre- served by his wife , is hardly credible ; yet none of his letters ad- dressed to her are extant , either in the Cavendish or ...
... Duchess of Devonshire , her only surviving child . That the letters of Lord Russell should not have been pre- served by his wife , is hardly credible ; yet none of his letters ad- dressed to her are extant , either in the Cavendish or ...
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... Duchess of Orleans , his sister , at the beginning of his disgraceful money transactions with France in June , 1669 , he desires to avoid telling Comminges ( of whose abilities he expresses no good opinion ) any thing about the intended ...
... Duchess of Orleans , his sister , at the beginning of his disgraceful money transactions with France in June , 1669 , he desires to avoid telling Comminges ( of whose abilities he expresses no good opinion ) any thing about the intended ...
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... Duchess " of Portsmouth told me true , that they said the jury could not have condemned my Lord , " if my Lord Essex had not died as he did . " See Published Letters , p . 100 . с occupied in various attempts to obtain a mitigation of ...
... Duchess " of Portsmouth told me true , that they said the jury could not have condemned my Lord , " if my Lord Essex had not died as he did . " See Published Letters , p . 100 . с occupied in various attempts to obtain a mitigation of ...
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... Duchess of Ports- mouth , in spite of her venality , resisted an offer of a hundred thousand pounds to procure his pardon . ( 1 ) The same cause stifled even an attempt at delivering the letter which Ruvigny is said to have obtained ...
... Duchess of Ports- mouth , in spite of her venality , resisted an offer of a hundred thousand pounds to procure his pardon . ( 1 ) The same cause stifled even an attempt at delivering the letter which Ruvigny is said to have obtained ...
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... Duchess of Marlborough thought it necessary to assure herself of Lady Russell's approbation , in the critical juncture of advising the Princess Anne to acquiesce in the settlement of the crown on the Prince of Orange . ( 3 ) From Lady ...
... Duchess of Marlborough thought it necessary to assure herself of Lady Russell's approbation , in the critical juncture of advising the Princess Anne to acquiesce in the settlement of the crown on the Prince of Orange . ( 3 ) From Lady ...
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afterwards created Allington Bedfordshire believe brother Burnet character Charles child Countess court daughter dear Lord dearest death desire Devonshire Duchess Duchess of Devonshire Duchess of Portsmouth Duke of Monmouth Duke of York eldest England Essex Evelyn father favour fear feelings Fitzwilliam France give happiness hear heard heart honour hope husband James King's Lady Elizabeth Lady Northumberland Lady Russell Lady Scroope Lady Sunderland Lady Vaughan Ladyship live London to Stratton Lord Cavendish Lord Galway Lord Halifax Lord Russell Lord Shaftesbury Lord Tavistock Lordship Madame Madame de Sévigné Marquis marriage married Mazarin mentioned mind Montague morning mother never night Ogle Parliament person pray Prince Published Letters Queen Rachael Robert Russell's Ruvigny Saville says sent Sidney Sir John Sir William sister sorrow Spencer tell thing thought to-day told town wife Woburn write yesterday
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Seite 97 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Seite 140 - I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and...
Seite xxxv - I know I have deserved my punishment, and will be silent under it; but yet secretly my heart mourns, too sadly I fear, and cannot be comforted, because I have not the dear companion and sharer of all my joys and sorrows. I want him to talk with, to walk with, to eat and sleep with; all these things are irksome to me now; the day unwelcome, and the night so, too; all company and meals I would avoid if it might be...
Seite 137 - I come, kind Gentlemen, strange news to tell ye; I am the Ghost of poor departed Nelly. Sweet Ladies, be not frighted; I'le be civil; I'm what I was, a little harmless Devil.
Seite xxviii - Friday evening) my lady left him ; he kissed her four or five times ; and she kept her sorrow so within herself, that she gave him no disturbance at their parting. After she was gone, he said, ' Now the bitterness of death is past...
Seite 51 - Arlington's family and the sweete child made me behold all this with regret, tho' as the Duke of Grafton affects the sea, to which I find his father intends to use him, he may emerge a plaine...
Seite xlii - God has let me see the folly of my imaginations, which made meapt to conclude I had nothing left, the deprivation of which could be matter of much anguish, or its possession of any considerable refreshment. I have felt the falseness of the first notion, for I know not how to part, with tolerable ease, from the little creature. I...
Seite 27 - The dishes and bottles were all the time before them on " the table ; and when it was morning, he would hunt or " hawk, if the weather was fair ; if not, he would dance, go '• to bed at eleven, and repose himself till the evening. '' Notwithstanding this irregularity, he was a man of great " sense, and though, as I just now said, some took him...
Seite lxix - ... hour's conversation with your ladyship, to ease my mind of the just complaints I have, that such returns are made to the zeal I have endeavoured to express, in my small capacity, for the good of England. I cannot but think it the fantastical influence of my ill stars, very peculiar to myself, all circumstances considered ; but whilst I am under the protection of your ladyship's better opinion, the malice or mistakes of others can never have the force so much as to discompose, madam, your ladyship's...
Seite 150 - Duncomb's ; where he, the lord-treasurer, and others, drank themselves into that height of frenzy, that, among friends, it was whispered they had stripped into their shirts, and that, had not an accident prevented them, they had got upon a signpost, to drink the king's health; which was the subject of much derision, to say no worse.