Works of the Camden Society, Том 71

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Camden Society, 1858
 

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Сторінка 49 - Second, struck by those very graces, gave him five thousand pounds ; with which he immediately bought an annuity for his life, of five hundred pounds a year, of my grandfather, Halifax ; which was the foundation of his subsequent fortune.
Сторінка 22 - King's leases, the reversion of places all in the Custom House, the green wax, and indeed, what not? All promotions, spiritual and temporal, pass under her cognizance. Buckingham runs out of all with the Lady Shrewsbury, by whom he believes he had a son, to whom the King stood godfather; it dyed, young Earl of Coventry, and was buryed in the sepulchre of his fathers.
Сторінка 171 - I have an obstinate kind of morality, which I hope may make amends for my want of devotion. It seems the foreign ministers have had my picture drawn by their, correspondents not very much to my advantage. I guess who were the painters, and think I am not mistaken in it. Where all this will end, either in relation to myself or to the publick, God in Heaven only knoweth. I am at this hour threatned with more thunder from the House of Commons to-morrow; whether it will be so or in what manner I do not...
Сторінка 174 - I see by the powerfull majority, which is not at all times found to be in the right. A man must never hope a pardon for small sins if he will digest great ones, and where blood is in the case there is not, or at least ought not to be, any room for prudence. That an honest man is a very scurvy calling I agree with you ; 4 but having used it so long I do not know how to change-, but must be content to keep to it with all its hazards and inconveniences.
Сторінка 287 - am I come forty miles to see a fellow?' and presently in a great rage turns about his horse, and away he goes faster than he came. The address whereof caused his majesty and all the company to burst out into a vehement laughter ; and so the fume, for the time, was happily dispersed*.
Сторінка 85 - ... avoid it with scandal. Whatever passes is sent to you of course, so that I shall never write any news to you except you bid me. My Lord Sunderland is very kind, and I value his being so to the degree I ought. I need not tell you how much you owe him, but remember it is no small things for men at court to speak kindly of their friends when they are at a distance.
Сторінка 171 - I confess I have an obstinate kind of morality, which I hope may make amends for my want of devotion. It seems the foreign ministers have had my picture, drawn by their correspondents, not very much to my advantage. I guess who were the painters, and think I am not mistaken in it. Where all this will end, either in relation to myself or to the public, God in heaven only knoweth. I am at this hour threatened with more thunder from the House of Commons to-morrow. Whether it will be so or in what manner...
Сторінка 16 - All our Miscarriages on Pett must fall, His name alone seems fit to answer all. Whose counsel first did this mad War beget ? Who all Commands sold through the Navy ? Pett. Who would not follow when the Dutch were beat ? Who treated out the Time at Bergen ? Pett.
Сторінка x - 79-80. I am once more got to my old tenement which I had not seen since I had given order to renew and repair it. It looketh now somewhat better then when you was last here ; and, besides the charms of your native soil,8 it hath something more 1 To Henry Sidney, (February) -£, 16Jg (Blencowe's Sidney, i.

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