 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,...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1481907Full view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1818 - 622 pages
...virtue. Evelyn was much affected by his death. Writing on the day when James was proclaimed, he says, ' I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...gaming and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of Cod (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 606 pages
...virtue. Evelyn was much affected bij his death. Writing on the day when James was proclaimed, he says, ' 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... | |
 | 1819 - 552 pages
...virtue. Evelyn was much affected by his death. Writing on the day when James was proclaimed, he says, ' 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... | |
 | Lady Rachel Russell, Mary Barry - Nobility - 1819 - 410 pages
...Evelyn, after mentioning many particulars of the death of Charles II. in February, 1685, says: — "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury " and...and all. dissoluteness, and, as it, " were, total forgetfulness of Qod, (it being Sunday evening,i " which, this day se'nnight, I was witness of: the... | |
 | Lady Rachel Russell - 1819 - 410 pages
...Evelyn, after mention, ing many particulars of the death of Charles II. in February, 1685, says: — " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury '.' and...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... | |
 | 1819 - 630 pages
...virtue. Evelyn was much affected by his death. Writing on the day when James was proclaimed, he says, • 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 thi* day se'nnight 1 was witness of, the king... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...of the king's death, Mr. Evelyn calls to mind a scene which he had witnessed not many days before. " 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... | |
 | Books - 1823 - 428 pages
...of the ing's death, Mr. Evelyn calls to mind a scene which he had witnessed not many days before. " 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... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...interval, had been hurried from existence ; and inserts the following note, in the same memorandum book: " 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 to: the king... | |
 | George Buchanan - Scotland - 1827 - 646 pages
...Charles * The following description of the court of Charles II. is by Evelyn, a ill-voted royalist. " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulncss of God, it being Sunday, which this day sc'euight I was witness of. The king sitting... | |
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