The Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys ...: Including a Narrative of His Voyage to Tangier, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1841 - Cabinet officers |
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... told your lordship in my former , by the Lark , I am still here , the height of the floods by the late rains continuing such , that , among many other instances , Mr. Al- derman Ludington , of Tangier , after having wait- ed above ten ...
... told your lordship in my former , by the Lark , I am still here , the height of the floods by the late rains continuing such , that , among many other instances , Mr. Al- derman Ludington , of Tangier , after having wait- ed above ten ...
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... told me , and showed me my Lord's order , that he and Killigrew came hither to lie till my Lord called them ; and it was only to do them kindness , to get in money , on which I see they are busy . Preestman doing the like , to carry ...
... told me , and showed me my Lord's order , that he and Killigrew came hither to lie till my Lord called them ; and it was only to do them kindness , to get in money , on which I see they are busy . Preestman doing the like , to carry ...
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... , to Algiers . What is yet to be bemoaned , Berry tells us , when he came home he told the King how , only for obedience to orders , he had lost four thousand pounds , which Poole had got . The King , 20 PEPYS'S JOURNAL.
... , to Algiers . What is yet to be bemoaned , Berry tells us , when he came home he told the King how , only for obedience to orders , he had lost four thousand pounds , which Poole had got . The King , 20 PEPYS'S JOURNAL.
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... told me , with disquiet , he believed it proceeded from the merchants ' spite to the King's captains ; else they could not but think it safer to use men - of - war than merchantmen , especially in his case , who , they may be sure ...
... told me , with disquiet , he believed it proceeded from the merchants ' spite to the King's captains ; else they could not but think it safer to use men - of - war than merchantmen , especially in his case , who , they may be sure ...
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... told us he had taken in all he intended , locked - up his hatches , and did not intend to stay one moment for the fleet , but would be gone the first fair wind . Speaking with Berry about the affronts to Shovel and Elmer the other day ...
... told us he had taken in all he intended , locked - up his hatches , and did not intend to stay one moment for the fleet , but would be gone the first fair wind . Speaking with Berry about the affronts to Shovel and Elmer the other day ...
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Page 64 - To Deptford by water, reading " Othello, Moor of Venice," which I ever heretofore esteemed a mighty good play ; but, having so lately read "The Adventures of Five Houres,
Page 337 - ... this shall be your warrant; and so we bid you heartily farewell. Given at our Court at Whitehall, llth day of November, 1684. " By his Majesty's command, SUNDERLAND.
Page 317 - The said 1,100,000 do live in about 200,000 families or houses, whereof there are about 16,000 which have more than one chimney in each, and about 24,000 which have but one ; all the other houses, being 160,000, are wretched, nasty cabins, without chimney, window, or doorshut ; even worse than those of the savage Americans, and wholly unfit for the making merchantable butter, cheese, or the manufactures of woollen, linen, or leather.
Page 186 - ... I am a very old man, and have withdrawn myself from all kind of business for some years past, and am incapable of doing any service in such an affair to your majesty or the city. Besides, Sir...
Page 183 - ... in the east : so now it seemed necessary for us to sail on to Plymouth, which must have engaged us in a long and tedious campaign in winter, through a very ill country. Nor were we sure to be received at Plymouth. The earl of Bath, who was governor, had sent by Russel a promise to the prince to come and join him : yet it was not likely, that he would be so forward as to receive us at our first coming.
Page 237 - Nor shall any solicitousness after the felicities of the next world (which yet I bless God! I am not without care for) ever stifle the satisfactions arising from a just confidence of receiving some time or other, even here, the reparation due to such unaccountable usage as I have sustained in this.
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Page 69 - ... believing it utterly impossible that a person so obliged should ever be guilty of so black a deed as to betray me in so barbarous a manner. Besides that, I really...
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Page 234 - ... for our Language is in some places sterile and barren, by reason of this depopulation, as I may call it ; and therefore such places should be new cultivated, and...