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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 36 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
ered at him plainly as a thick-skulled fool; and the more courteous Pepys paints him as a heavy, dull man, who will not hinder business, and us and so brilliant, that the city seemed encircled with a halo; Pepys, i. 15. 18. and under a clear sky, with a favoring wind, the path onable love. The shouting and general joy were past imagination. Pepys. On the journey from Dover to London, the hillocks all the way were, in the territory of a free and independent state, The story in Pepys, II. 149, 150, 4to. ed., is very unfavorable to De Witt. less securong purpose or steady application. He read imperfectly and ill Pepys, i. 243. When drunk, he was a silly, good-natured, subservient fool. Pepys, II. 130. In the council of state, he played with his dog, never minding the business, or making a speech, memorable only for its sited the naval magazines, his talk was equally idle and frothy. Pepys, i. 243 The best trait in his character was his natural kindlin
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
e, colonial loyalty did not content itself with barren professions; it sent provisions to the English fleet in the West Indies; and to the navy in 1666 Dec. 3. England, a ship-load of masts; a blessing, mighty unexpected, and but for which, adds Pepys, Pepys, i. 489. we must have failed the next year. The daring defiance of Massachusetts was not followed by immediate danger. The ministry of Clarendon was fallen, and he himself was become an exile; and profligate libertines had not only Pepys, i. 489. we must have failed the next year. The daring defiance of Massachusetts was not followed by immediate danger. The ministry of Clarendon was fallen, and he himself was become an exile; and profligate libertines had not only gained the confidence of the king's mistresses, but places in the royal cabinet. While Charles II. was dallying with women, and robbing the theatre of actresses—while the licentious Buckingham, who had succeeded in displacing Clarendon, wasted the vigor of his mind and body by indulging in every sensual pleasure which nature could desire or wit invent—while Louis XIV. was gaining influence in the English cabinet, by bribing the mistress of the chief of the king's cabal—England remained witho<
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
ienced minister, hated by the people, faithful only to the king; Pepys, i. 192, 366. Evelyn. Monk, so conspicuous in the restoration, ande of Albemarle; Lord Craven, Life of Lord Keeper Guilford, 393. Pepys, i. 115. a brave Cavalier, an old soldier of the German discipline,assionate, and ignorant, and not too honest Sir George Carteret, Pepys, i. 356, 140, 235, 236, 228, 176. —were instituted its proprietors opposed to the ultra royalists, not as changing his principles, Pepys, i. 219. But Dryden writes, Restless, unfixed in principles and plwo buckets, of which one goes down exactly as the other goes up. Pepys, i. 219. In the people of England, as the depository of power and fhe would have made no scruple of robbing the devil or the altar, Pepys, i. 366. he would not pervert the course of judgment, or be bribed ion. He transacted business with an admirable ease and mastery, Pepys, i. 222; or Shaftesbury. Compare, also, North and Burnet. for his
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
grace of manners, enhanced by the severe but unpretending purity of his morals; and in London the travelled student of Lincoln's Inn, if diligent in gaining a 1664 1665 knowledge of English law, was yet esteemed a most modish fine gentleman. Pepys, i. 311. In France, the science of the Huguenots had nourished reflection; in London, every sentiment of sympathy was excited by the horrors which he witnessed during the devastations of the plague. Penn, II. 465. Having thus perfected his scornings, the invectives of the priests, the strangeness of all his old companions; Ibid. So Besse. it was noised about, in the fashionable world, as an excellent jest, that William Penn was a Quaker again, or some very melancholy thing;; Pepys, II. 172. and his father, in anger, turned him penniless out of doors. 1667. The outcast, saved from extreme indigence by a mother's fondness, became an author, and announced 1668. to princes, priests, and people, that he was one of the despi