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" In such sessions, ten hours long, there was much public eating, not only of confections, but of flesh and bread ; bottles of beer and wine going thick from mouth to mouth, without cups ; and all this in the King's eye : yea, many but turned their back,... "
Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding ... - Page 339
by William Seward - 1798
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Shades and Echoes of Old London

John Stoughton - London (England) - 1864 - 302 pages
...tells us that after ten o'clock there was much public eating, not only of confections, but of flesh aud bread, bottles of beer and wine going thick from mouth to mouth without cups, and all this before the king's eyes. After weeks spent in adducing evidence and arguments in support of the charge...
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John Cassell's illustrated history of England. The text, to the ..., Volume 3

Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 648 pages
...gravity was not such as I expected. After ten, much public eating, not only of confections, but of flesh and bread ; bottles of beer and wine going thick from...mouth without cups, and all this in the king's eye. There was no outgoing to return, and often the sitting was till two, three, or four o'clock at night."...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 6

Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 450 pages
...such sessions, ten hours long, there was much public eating, not only of confections, but of flesh and bread ; bottles of beer and wine going thick from...this in the King's eye : yea, many but turned their back, and' — (Gracious Heavens!) — 'through the forms they sat on. There was no outgoing to return...
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Collected Works, Volume 11

Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 444 pages
...such sessions, ten hours long, there was much public eating, not only of confections, but of flesh and bread; bottles of beer and wine going thick from...this in the King's eye : yea, many but turned their back, and' — (Gracious Heavens!) — 'through the forms they sat on. There was no outgoing to return...
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Historical Notices of Events Occurring Chiefly in the Reign of Charles I.

Nehemiah Wallington - Great Britain - 1869 - 380 pages
...too loud clattering ; after ten houres, much publict eating, not onlie of confections, bot of flesh and bread, bottles of beer and wine going thick from...mouth without cups, and all this in the King's eye." — R. Baillies Letters, vol. ip 314. Bannatyne Club, Edinburgh, 1814. NOTE RR.— Vol. I., page 245....
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The Life of John Milton, Volume 2

David Masson - 1871 - 630 pages
...too loud clattering ; after ten " hours much public eating, not only of confections, but of " flesh and bread — bottles of beer and wine going thick...without cups ; and all this in the King's " eye." Of the ladies present, most of whom, " moved by pity proper to their sex," took Strafford's side, not...
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connection with the Political ..., Volume 2

David Masson - 1871 - 636 pages
...too loud clattering ; after ten " hours much public eating, not only of confections, but of " flesh and bread — bottles of beer and wine going thick...without cups ; and all this in the King's " eye." Of the ladies present, most of whom, " moved by pity proper to their sex," took Strafford's side, not...
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The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle, Volume 3

Henry Thomas Buckle - Great Britain - 1872 - 726 pages
...seen, writes Baillie (Letters, vol. ip 316), "much public eating, not only of confections, but of flesh and bread, bottles of beer and wine going thick from...this in the King's eye ; yea many but turned their back, and let water go through the formes they sat on." 371. The Countess of Buccleuch, who died in...
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Relfe brothers' model reading-books, in prose and verse, ed., with ..., Volume 5

Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 pages
...tells us that after ten o'clock there was much public eating, not only of confections, but of flesh and bread, bottles of beer and wine going thick from mouth to mouth without cups, and all this before the king's eyes. After weeks spent in adducing evidence and arguments in support of the charge...
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Carlyles' Works: Critical and miscellaneous essays

Thomas Carlyle - English literature - 1884 - 498 pages
...such sessions, ten hours long, there was much public eating, not only of confections, but of flesh and bread ; bottles of beer and wine going thick from...cups ; and all this in the King's eye : yea, many but 1 " Duke de Vanden," we presume, is Due de Vendome, left-hand Brother of Charles's Queen ; " Vallet...
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