 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,...  Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and Miscellaneous, of ... - Page 375by Richard Warner - 1824Full view - About this book
 | John Evelyn - 1847 - 180 pages
...himself, can scarcely be conceived. " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total...(it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight 1 was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 104 pages
...preceding : — " I can never forget," he says, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness...Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 488 pages
...Sunday preceding. " I can never forget," he says, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'night I was witness of; the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland,... | |
 | William Andrew Chatto - Card games - 1848 - 436 pages
...in his Memoirs, writing on 6th Feb. 1685, the day when James II was proclaimed, says, " I never can forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming...Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French... | |
 | Literature - 1848 - 690 pages
...extract from " Evelyn's Diary :"— I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness...Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of ; the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c. ; a... | |
 | Edward Farr - 1848 - 562 pages
...scene in which he was engaged well illustrates his character. " I can never forget," says Evelyn, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and...dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God, being Sunday evening, which this day se'nnight I was witness of— the king sitting and toying with... | |
 | 1848 - 526 pages
...from " Evelyn's Diary :" — " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day sc'nnight I was witness of; the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland,... | |
 | William Andrew Chatto - Card games - 1848 - 424 pages
...in his Memoirs, writing on 6th Feb. 1685, the day when James II was proclaimed, says, " I never can forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulncss of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king... | |
 | John Thomas Smith - City dwellers - 1849 - 472 pages
...was reduced, by the touch of death, to an equality with the beggar, " I can never forget," says he, " the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the king sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, &c. ; a French... | |
 | 1850 - 540 pages
...which his pen has so vividly described. " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and prophaneness, gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total...Sunday Evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleaveland, and Mazarine &c., a French... | |
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