Diary of Samuel Pepys: F. R. S., Secretary to the Admiralty Inthe Reigns of Charles II & James II. The Diary Deciphered, Band 2J. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1906 |
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... mind to improve ; for I think our office stands on very ticklish terms , the Parliament likely to sit shortly , and likely to be asked more money , and we able to give a very bad account of the expence and of what we have done with what ...
... mind to improve ; for I think our office stands on very ticklish terms , the Parliament likely to sit shortly , and likely to be asked more money , and we able to give a very bad account of the expence and of what we have done with what ...
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... mind soberly , and with reason ; and went away , saying , that he had done his duty therein . 24th . After the Committee up , I had occasion to follow the Duke into his lodgings , into a chamber where the Duchess was sitting to have her ...
... mind soberly , and with reason ; and went away , saying , that he had done his duty therein . 24th . After the Committee up , I had occasion to follow the Duke into his lodgings , into a chamber where the Duchess was sitting to have her ...
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... mind op- pressed by my defect in my duty of the Victualling , which lies upon me as a burden , till I get myself into a better posture therein . As to public business ; by late tidings of the French fleete being come to Rochelle , how ...
... mind op- pressed by my defect in my duty of the Victualling , which lies upon me as a burden , till I get myself into a better posture therein . As to public business ; by late tidings of the French fleete being come to Rochelle , how ...
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... mind to be the great man with him , and to that end had a mind to have the Prince at a distance from the Duke of Albemarle , that they might be doing something alone - did , as he believed , put on this business of dividing the fleete ...
... mind to be the great man with him , and to that end had a mind to have the Prince at a distance from the Duke of Albemarle , that they might be doing something alone - did , as he believed , put on this business of dividing the fleete ...
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... mind of the unruliness of them ; and what a loss the King hath of his old men ; and now of this Hannam , of the Resolution , if he be dead . He told me how he is disturbed to hear the commanders at sea called cowards here on shore , and ...
... mind of the unruliness of them ; and what a loss the King hath of his old men ; and now of this Hannam , of the Resolution , if he be dead . He told me how he is disturbed to hear the commanders at sea called cowards here on shore , and ...
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afternoon afterwards Anglesey Batelier Batten believe called Captain Carteret Charles church coach comes command Commissioners Council Court Coventry daughter Deptford dined dinner discourse Duchess Duke of Albemarle Duke of Buckingham Duke of York Dutch Earl fear fire fleete garden give glad gone hath hear heard Hewer James's King and Duke King's house King's playhouse Knipp Lady Castlemaine late letter Lord Arlington Lord Brouncker Lord Chancellor Lord Sandwich Lord's day married matter Mercer mightily pleased mighty merry morning musick Navy never night noon Office Parliament Pepys play pleasure pretty Prince Queen says seems sent ships Sir G Sir John Sir Thomas Sir Thomas Crewe staid Street supper talk Tangier tells Thence things thither to-day told took town trouble Turner vexed walked Westminster wherein White Hall wife woman Wren yesterday York's
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Seite 88 - Everybody endeavouring to remove their goods, and flinging into the river or bringing them into lighters that lay off; poor people staying in their houses as long as till the very fire touched them, and then running into boats, or clambering from one pair of stairs by the water-side to another.
Seite 88 - So I was called for, and did tell the King and Duke of York what I saw, and that unless his Majesty did command houses to be pulled down nothing could stop the fire.
Seite 78 - I took coach, having first discoursed with Mr. Hooke a little, whom we met in the streete, about the nature of sounds, and he did make me understand the nature of musicall sounds made by strings, mighty prettily; and told me that having come to a certain number of vibrations proper to make any tone, he is able to tell how many strokes a fly makes with her wings (those flies that hum in their flying) by the note that it answers to in musique during their flying. That, I suppose, is a little too much...
Seite 89 - That he needed no more soldiers; and that, for himself, he must go and refresh himself, having been up all night. So he left me, and I him, and walked home : seeing people all almost distracted, and no manner of means used to quench the fire. The houses, too, so very thick thereabouts, and full of matter for burning, as pitch and tar, in Thames Street; and warehouses of oyle, and wines, and brandy, and other things.
Seite 88 - Steeple by which pretty Mrs. lives, and whereof my old schoolfellow Elborough is Parson, taken fire in the very top, and there burned till it fell down...
Seite 277 - Home, and there find my wife making of tea ; a drink which Mr. Felling, the Potticary, tells her is good for her cold and defluxions.
Seite 175 - Stewart, very fine, with her locks done up with puffes, as my wife calls them : and several other great ladies had their hair so, though I do not like it ; but my wife do mightily — but it is only because she sees it is the fashion.
Seite 289 - And to the town, to the King's Head; and hear that my Lord Buckhurst and Nelly are lodged at the next house, and Sir Charles Sedley with them; and keep a merry house. Poor girl ! I pity her; but more the loss of her at the King's house.
Seite 614 - I think, one of the weakest plays that ever I saw on the stage. This afternoon, before the play, I called with my wife at Dancre's,4 the great landscape-painter, by Mr.