Memoirs. Part III. From the Peace Concluded 1679 to the Time of the Author's Retirement from Public Business, Part 3 |
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Page 256 - The King shall be obeyed, and I would be glad all his subjects would learn of me to obey him : I do tell him my opinion very freely upon any thing ; but when that is done, and I know his pleasure upon it, I obey him.
Page 50 - Oui moi, & je fcai bien faire ; " and made the chuck four or five times that people " ufe to make to chickens when they call them. I fet " down the words of this worthy dialogue in French, " juft as prince Maurice faid them to me. I afked " him in what language the parrot fpoke, and he faid, " in Brafilian ; I afked whether he underftood Brafi...
Page 132 - Prince concluded he •would enter upon this Purfuit; and in order to it, .would write both to the King and the Duke to beg their Favour to him in it, and their Leave that he might go over into England at the End of the Campaign : That my Wife, who was then going over upon my private Affairs...
Page 255 - ... the peace before he was married, but that before he went, the king must choose how they should live hereafter, for he was sure it must be either like the ' greatest friends or the greatest enemies...
Page 9 - Satisfaction for his Mother's Portion that had never been paid ; yet it gave the King the whole Honour of the Peace, as the Sum given by the Parliament upon it and the general Satisfaction of his People made the Eafe of it. And thus happily ended our...
Page 130 - ... such wives as were generally in the Courts of this age: that if he should meet with one to give him trouble at home, it was what he should not be able to bear, who was like to have enough abroad in the course of his life: and that, after the manner he was resolved to live with a wife, which should be the best he could, he would have one that he thought likely to live well with him, which he thought chiefly depended on her disposition and education...
Page 32 - Meffage, having affur'd this this Houfe of his readinefs to concur in all other Means for the prefervation of the Proteftant Religion, this Houfe doth declare, That until a Bill be likewife...
Page 189 - ... when with the last endeavours he was just got up to the place intended, the force of the eddy carried him quite back again ; but he turned his boat as soon as he could, and fell to his oars again ; and thus three or four times while the Prince...
Page 35 - But all was silenced by the relations from Utrecht, where the great and ancient cathedral was torn in pieces by the violence of this storm ; and the vast pillars of stone that supported it, were wreathed like a twisted club, having been so strongly composed and cemented, as rather to suffer such a change of figure than break in pieces, as other parts of the fabric did...