 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
 | 1868 - 438 pages
...state of things at court may be seen in the following from the pen of a devoted loyalist of the time: "I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness,...gaming and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God, it being Sunday, which this day se'enight I was witness of. The king sitting... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1862 - 584 pages
...zealous royalist, of what was seen in the court of Charles II., only the Sunday before his death. ' 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 sen'night I was witness of. ' The... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1868 - 684 pages
...of moral, at the close of his account of Charles the Second, when the pious diarist breaks out : ' 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Books - 1868 - 662 pages
...way of moral, at the close of his account of Charles the Second, when the pious diarist breaks out : 'I can never 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 Cordy Jeaffreson - Clergy - 1870 - 362 pages
...rather than the sentiments which the recorded events occasioned at the time of their occurrence, ' 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'ennight I was witness of, the king... | |
 | George Steinman Steinman - 1871 - 274 pages
...get," writes Evelyn on February 8, 1684-5, when recording in his journal the death of Charles II., " 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... | |
 | English literature - 1873 - 584 pages
...range of English literature. Evelyn says, speaking of the court of the late King Charles the Second : " 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... | |
 | John Reynell Morell - Great Britain - 1873 - 354 pages
...everywhere was found corruption and iniquity. "Never," says a well-known writer, John Evelyn, " shall I 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 at Whitehall.... | |
 | Belgravia - 1876 - 562 pages
...pond whence the fragrant water-lily derived its beauty and perfume. ' I can never forget,' he wrote, ' 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... | |
 | 1876 - 600 pages
...pond whence the fragrant water-lily derived its beauty and perfume. ' I can never forget,' he wrote, ' 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... | |
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