The Life of Mrs. Godolphin by John Evelyn ...

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D. Appleton, 1847 - 147 Seiten

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Seite xiv - I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflections with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust...
Seite xiii - 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...
Seite 119 - For by grace are ye saved through faith ; and that not of yourselves : it is the gift of God : not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Seite 135 - A female, suspected to have been his duchess, after his death, supported herself for a few days (till she was known and otherwise provided for) by the little trade of this place : having delicacy enough not to wish to be detected, she sat in a white mask, and a white dress, and was known by the name.- of the white widow.
Seite i - M. Guizot, in his instructive Lectures, has given us an epitome of modern history, distinguished by all the merit which, in another department, renders Blackstone a subject of such peculiar and unbounded praise — a work closely condensed, including nothing useless, omitting nothing essential ; written with grace, and conceived and arranged with consummate ahility.*' GUIZOT.— HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION of 1640, from the Accession of Charles I. to his Death. By F. GUIZOT, the Prime Minister...
Seite 144 - THE sudden storms that heave me to and fro, Had well near pierced Faith, my guiding sail; For I that on the noble voyage go To succour truth, and falsehood to assail, Constrained am to bear my sails full low; And never could attain some pleasant gale : For unto such the prosperous winds do blow As run from port to port to seek avail. This bred despair; whereof such doubts did grow That I 'gan faint, and all my courage fail. 10 But now, my Blage, 1 mine error well I see; Such goodly light King David...
Seite 71 - I say all this to you my friend ? truely that out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh, and I am still soe full of it, that I cannot forbeare expressing my thoughts to you.
Seite 135 - II. a bigoted papist, and fit instrument of the designs of the infatuated prince, who had created him Earl before his abdication, and after that Duke of Tyrconnel. A female, suspected to have been his duchess, after his death, supported herself for a few days (till she was known and otherwise provided for) by the little trade of...
Seite 12 - If you speake any thing they like, say 'tis borrowed, and be humble when commended. Before I speake, Lord, assist me ; when I pray, Lord, heare me ; when I am praised, God, humble me ; may the clock, the candle, every thing I see, instruct me ; Lord cleanse my hands, lett my feete tread thy pathes.
Seite 21 - Reflections ; and that you freely command me vpon all occasions without any reserve whatsoever : you are to write to me when I am absent ; mention me in all your prayers to God, to admonish me of all my failings, to visitt me in sickness, to take care of me when I am in distress, and never to forsake me, change or lessen your particular esteeme, till I prove vnconstant or perfidious, and no mans freind : in a word, there is in Freindshipp something of all relations, and something above them all.

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