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Page 211 - As for nobility in particular persons, it is a reverend thing to see an ancient castle or building not in decay, or to see a fair timber tree sound and perfect; how much more to behold an ancient noble family, which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time ? for new nobility is but the act of power, but ancient nobility is the act of time.
Page 145 - Pepys had educated in all sorts of useful learning, sending him to travel abroad, from whence he returned with extraordinary accomplishments, and worthy to be heir. Mr. Pepys had been for near forty years so much my particular friend, that Mr. Jackson sent me complete mourning, desiring me to be one to hold up the pall at his magnificent obsequies ; but my indisposition hindered me from doing him this last office.
Page 126 - And as the fashions be rare and straunge, so is the stuffe whereof their hattes be made divers also ; for some are of silke, some of velvet, some of taffetie, some of sarcenet, some of wool], and whiche is more curious, some of a certaine kinde of fine haire...
Page 154 - Multa senem circumveniunt incommoda, vel quod Quaerit, et inventis miser abstinet. ac timet uti; Vel quod res omnes timide gelideque ministrat, Dilator, spe longus, iners, avidusque futuri, Difficilis, querulus, laudator temporis acti Se puero, castigator censorque minorum.
Page 153 - ... mind to. Still so perverse and opposite As if they worshipped God for spite, The self-same thing they will abhor One way and long another for ; Freewill they one way disavow, Another, nothing else allow ; All piety consists therein In them, in other men all sin. Rather than fail they will defy That which they love most tenderly; Quarrel with mince-pies, and disparage Their best and dearest friend plum-porridge; Fat pig and goose itself oppose, And blaspheme custard through the nose.
Page 133 - Post, in 1695, announces, that 'if any gentleman has a mind to oblige his country friend or correspondent with this account of public affairs, he may have it for two-pence of J. Salisbury, tvt the Rising Sun in Cornhill, on a sheet of fine paper, half of which being blank, he may thereon write his own private business, or the material news of the day.
Page 106 - The colonel, in trembling manner, came near, and told his majesty it was time to go to Whitehall, where he might have some further time to rest.
Page 147 - What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost.
Page 219 - In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus patentes. Teste meipso, apud Leighes, vicesimo quarto die Julii, anno regni nostri quarto, per breve de privato sigillo, et de datis praedicta autoritate parliamenti.
Page 154 - In youth alone unhappy mortals live ; But ah ! the mighty bliss is fugitive : Discoloured sickness, anxious labours, come, And age, and death's inexorable doom.