Letters Addressed from London to Sir Joseph Williamson While Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Cologne in the Years 1673 and 1674, Выпуск 9

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William Dougal Christie
Camden society, 1874
 

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Стр. 48 - appeared to be at this time about fourteen years of age ; she was tall and admirably shaped ; her complexion was of the last degree of fairness, her hair black as jet, so were her eyebrows and her eyes, but the latter so full of light and sweetness as they did dazzle and charm too.
Стр. 52 - Excise; and in the Restoration he was found to be so useful in managing the Excise that he was put in a good post. He was the roughest and boldest speaker in the House, and talked in the language and phrases of a carrier, but with a beauty and eloquence that was always acceptable. I heard Coventry say he was the best speaker to carry a popular assembly before him that he had ever known. He spoke always with much life and heat, but judgment was not his talent.
Стр. 91 - He was so very ignorant of foreign affairs, that, his province being the North, when one of the foreign ministers talked to him of the Circles of (Germany, it amazed him : he could not imagine what circles had to do with affairs of state.
Стр. 52 - He was the roughest and boldest speaker in the house, and talked in the language and phrases of a carrier, but with a beauty and eloquence that was always acceptable. I heard Coventry • say, he was the best speaker to carry a popular assembly before him that he had ever known. He spoke always with much life and heat. But judgment was not his talent.
Стр. 70 - the common people talke anything. for every carman and porter is now a statesman: and indeed the coffeehouses are good for nothing else.
Стр. 48 - ... was tall and admirably shaped ; her complexion was of the last degree of fairness, her hair black as jet ; so were her eyebrows and her eyes, but the latter so full of light and sweetness, as they did dazzle and charm too. There seemed given...
Стр. 105 - Members in towne, the debauchees by drinking with them, the sober by grave and serious discourses, the pious by receiving the sacrament at Westminster...
Стр. 52 - Wortley altered his motion to that of its being presented by such members of the House as are of his Majesty's privy council.
Стр. 165 - Letters addressed from London to Sir Joseph Williamson while Plenipotentiary at the Congress of Cologne in the year 1673.

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