 | William Coxe - Austria - 1807 - 804 pages
...the art of seeming well pleased with every thing, without " so much as smiling once, all the while he was at court, which was " only three days. He spoke...little, and all he said was judicious " and obliging*." In the ensuing year the young monarch sailed from Portsmouth 1704. with a large fleet, commanded by... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1818 - 728 pages
...Queen's behaviour toward! him was very noble and obliging. The young King charmed all that was there ; be had a gravity beyond his age, tempered with much modesty...fleet, so that he set sail in the beginning of January, ami for five days he had a fair wind, with good weather ; but then the wind changed, and he was driven... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 478 pages
...had an art of seeming well pleased with every thing, without so much as smiling once all the while he was at court, which was only three days ; he spoke...but then the wind changed, and he was driven back to Portsmouth ; he lay there above three weeks, and then he had a very prosperous navigation. The forces... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1833 - 484 pages
...had an art of seeming well pleased with every thing, without so much as smiling once all the while he was at court, which was only three days; he spoke...but then the wind changed, and he was driven back to Portsmouth ; he lay there above three weeks, and then he had a very prosperous navigation. The forces... | |
 | William Coxe - Austria - 1847 - 616 pages
...had the art of seeming well pleased with every thing, without so much as smiling once all the while he was at court, which was only three days. He spoke...little, and all he said was judicious and obliging." In the ensuing year the young monarch sailed from Portsmouth with a large fleet, commanded by Sir George... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Austria - 1859 - 536 pages
...had the art of seeming well pleased with every thing, without so much as smiling once all the while he was at court, which was only three days. He spoke...little, and all he said was judicious and obliging." Young Charles was engaged to the daughter of the King of Portugal ; but the young lady died just before... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Great Britain - 1880 - 368 pages
...He had an art of seeming well pleased with everything, without so much as smiling once all the while he was at Court — which was only three days. He...little, and all he said was judicious and obliging." — Hist. (1833), v. 82, 83. Granted that it was either necessary or politic to carry the war against... | |
 | John Hill Burton - Great Britain - 1880 - 376 pages
...an art of seeming well pleased with everything, without so much as smiling once all the while he WHS at Court — which was only three days. He spoke but...little, and all he said was judicious and obliging." — Hist. (1833), v. 82, 83. Granted that it was either necessary or politic to carry the war against... | |
 | William Coxe - Austria - 1882 - 618 pages
...had the art of seeming well pleased with every thing, without so much as smiling once all the while he was at court, which was only three days. He spoke...little, and all he said was judicious and obliging." Having made several ineffectual attemp'ts on the Spanish coasts, Charles at length landed in Catalonia,... | |
 | William Coxe - 1889 - 616 pages
...had the art of seeming well pleased with every thing, without so much as smiling once all the while he was at court, which was only three days. He spoke...little, and all he said was judicious and obliging." In the ensuing year the young monarch sailed from Portsmouth with a large fleet, commanded by Sir George... | |
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... in all points so exact, that there was not a circumstance in his whole deportment that was liable to censure; he paid an extraordinary respect to the queen, and yet maintained a due greatness in it; he had an art of seeming well pleased with every... 
