 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
 | Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1883 - 860 pages
...1684-5 had been spent by the Court at Whitehall, amid the gaieties common to the season. Evelyn could never forget 'the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and, as it were, a total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) ' which he was witness of; 'the King sitting... | |
 | John Evelyn - Great Britain - 1878 - 450 pages
...to all the proposals ; goes away again to Rochester. 18th. I saw the King take barge to Grravesend at twelve o'clock — a sad sight ! The Prince comes to St. James's, and fills Whitehall with Dutch guards. A Council of Peers meet about an expedient to call a Parliament... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...picture of the court of Charles II. on the Sunday preceding his death, February 6, 1685: The Last Sunday of Charles II. I can never forget the inexpressible...and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and aa it were total forgetfulness of God— it being Sunday evening — which this day se'ennight I was... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1256 pages
...with his approval. One entry from Evelyn's diary briefly tells the great event of the next morning: "I saw the king take barge to Gravesend at twelve o'clock — a sad sight." That night the prince of Orange slept in St. James' palace. ENTRANCE OF WILLIAM III. INTO LONDON.-... | |
 | Augusta Theodosia Drane - 1881 - 924 pages
...to pictures of a court whose corruption has never been equalled. "Never," says 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.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...the Sumluy preceding his death, February 0, 1685: The La$t Sunday of Charles II. I can never forgot the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulnef*a of God — it being Sunday evening: — which tuis duy wVnnight I was witness of —... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...writes a .Diary, with the tone of an educated and reflecting observer. Here is a picture of the court of Charles II: 'I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaining, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgclfnlncss of God — it being Sunday evening... | |
 | Bernard Henry Becker - Europe - 1884 - 340 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'night I was witness of, the king sitting... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...denied to him and kept out of his sight. JOHN EVELYN. From his DIAKY. THE LAST SUNDAY OF CHARLES II. 1 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'en night I was witness of—the... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - World history - 1884 - 1152 pages
...his approval. One entry from Evelyn's diary briefly tells the great event of the next morning : " I saw the king take barge to Gravesend at twelve o'clock — a sad sight." That night the prince of Orange slept in St. James' palace. GOVERNMENT OF WILLIAM AND MARY (1689—... | |
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