| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1818 - 622 Seiten
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table; a bank of at least =£"3000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust!' He deplored his loss, he said,... | |
| 1818 - 606 Seiten
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table; a bank of at least rf'-iOOO in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six davs after, all was in the dust !' He deplored his loss, he said,... | |
| 1819 - 552 Seiten
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table; a bank of at least ^20OO in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who...made reflections with astonishment. Six days after all was in the dust!' , In the year 1694 he left Sayes Court, after having resided there more than... | |
| 1819 - 630 Seiten
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a lar^e table ; a bank of at least £2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexion* with astonishment. Six days after, all was in the dust!' He deplored his loss, he said,... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 Seiten
...courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset, round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand in gold before them; upon which, two gentlemen, who...me, made reflections with astonishment. Six days, qfter, "was all in dust!" From this moment, the court of England assumed a better aspect. James II.,... | |
| John Evelyn - 1827 - 458 Seiten
...greate courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust! It was enjoyn'd that those who put... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 Seiten
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least JE¿000 friendship! why impressed Ou my weak, wretched, dying breast Î * me sit, like se@k + all was in the dust. Of the following extracts from the ' Diary,' the first is given in the original... | |
| Walter Wilson - 1830 - 566 Seiten
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset, round a large table, a bank of at least 2000/. in gold before them, upon which, two gentlemen who were with me, made a reflection with astonishment: six days after, all was in the dust!" To speak of the religion of a... | |
| Walter Wilson - 1830 - 562 Seiten
...courtiers and other dissolute persons were at Basset, round a large table, a bank of at least 2000/. in gold before them, upon which, two gentlemen who were with me, made a reflection with astonishment : six days after, all was in the dust!" To speak of the religion of... | |
| Robert Vaughan - 1831 - 564 Seiten
...which he passed his last Sabbath on earth, is not from the pen of an adversary. " I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming,...least 2,000?. in gold before them, upon which two CHAP. gentlemen, who were with me, made reflections \— ^^ with astonishment. Six days after was all... | |
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