The Ellis Correspondence: Letters Written During the Years 1686, 1687, 1688, and Addressed to John Ellis, Esq., Secretary to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Revenue in Ireland : Comprising Many Particulars of the Revolution, and Anecdotes Illustrative of the History and Manners of Those Times, Volum 1

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H. Colburn, 1829
 

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Pàgina 183 - Friendly at Hackney, faithless at Whitehall. Catius is ever moral, ever grave, Thinks who endures a knave, is next a knave, Save just at dinner — then prefers, no doubt, A rogue with ven'son to a saint without.
Pàgina 98 - Cartwright was promoted to Chester. He was a man of good capacity, and had made some progress in learning. He was ambitious and servile, cruel and boisterous; and, by the great liberties he allowed himself, he fell under much scandal of the worst sort.
Pàgina 296 - ... now, most happily, they first fell upon that room in the wreck where the bullion had been stored up; and they so prospered in this new fishery that in a little while they had without the loss of any man's life brought up thirtytwo tuns of silver; for it was now come to measuring of silver by tuns.
Pàgina 219 - This gentleman came first a poor boy from the choir of Salisbury, then he was taken notice of by Bishop Duppa, and afterwards waited on my Lord Percy (brother to Algernon Earl of Northumberland), who procured for him an inferior place amongst the Clerks of the Kitchen and...
Pàgina 194 - A bill for the exclusion of the duke of York from the succession to the throne passed a second reading in the commons, when parliament was prorogued on May 26 to Aug.
Pàgina 280 - I have ordered the corpse to be embalmed, and carried to Helmsley Castle, and there to remain till my lady duchess her pleasure shall be known. There must be speedy care taken, for there is nothing here but confusion not to be expressed. Though his stewards have received vast sums, there is not so much as one farthing, as they tell me, for defraying the least expense. But I have ordered his intestines to be buried at Helmsley, where his body is to remain till further orders.
Pàgina 360 - Pleas where his lordship presided: and however some of his brethren were apt to insult him, his lordship was always careful to repress such indecencies ; and not only protected but used him with much humanity. For nothing is so sure a...
Pàgina 5 - And shall Trelawney die, and shall Trelawney die? Then thirty thousand Cornish boys will know the reason why.
Pàgina 277 - The doctors told me his case was desperate, and though he enjoyed the free exercise of his senses, that in a day or two at most it would kill him ; but they durst not tell him of it ; so they put a hard part...
Pàgina 278 - I asked him whom I should send for to be assistant to him during the small time he had to live : he would make me no answer, which made me conjecture, and having formerly heard that he had been inclining to be a Roman Catholic, I asked him if I should send for a priest; for I thought any act that could be like a Christian, was what his condition now wanted most ; but he positively told me that he was not of that persuasion, and so would not hear any more of that...

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