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" I can never forget the inexpressible luxury and profaneness, gaming, and all dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines,... "
The Eclectic Review - Page 242
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Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, Volume 2

John Evelyn - 1850 - 414 pages
...dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God, (it being Sunday evening,) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, &c., a French boy singing love-songs,* in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty...
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Notes and Queries, Volumes 148-149

1925 - 996 pages
...dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this d»y ee'nuight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, and Mazarine, etc., a French boy . singing love-songs, in that glorious gallery, I whilst about twenty...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., Volume 190

1851 - 752 pages
...and, as it were, a total forgetful ness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, £c. a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...
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The Story of Nell Gwyn: And the Sayings of Charles the Second

Peter Cunningham - 1852 - 250 pages
...dissoluteness, and, as it were, a total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying with...French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large...
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Memoirs of the Court of Charles the Second

Anthony Hamilton (Count), Charles II (King of England), Thomas Blount - 1853 - 568 pages
...dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening) which this day se'nnight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying- with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, etc., a French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...
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character and anecdotes of charles the second

charles barker - 1853 - 126 pages
...dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'ennight I was witness of, the King sitting and toying with his concubines, Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, etc., a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers...
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Manna in the house; or, Daily expositions of the Gospels. St. Matthew (St ...

Barton Bouchier - 1853 - 518 pages
...dissoluteness, and as it were total forgetfullnesse of God (it being Sunday evening), which this day se'nnight I was witness of — the King sitting and toying with his concubines. . . . whilst about 20 of the grate courtiers, and other dissolute persons, were at basset round a large...
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Table Traits: With Something on Them

Dr. Doran (John) - 1854 - 564 pages
...dissoluteness, and as it were total neglectfulness of God, it being Sunday evening, which this day sennight I was witness of, the king sitting and toying with...Portsmouth, Cleveland, Mazarine, &c. ; a French boy singing love-songs in that glorious gallery ; whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 35

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1855 - 590 pages
...dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God, it being Sunday evening, which this day se'nnight I was witness of ; the King sitting and toying with...French boy singing love songs in that glorious gallery, whilst the courtiers were at basset, with a bank of at least 2,000/. in gold before them." At eight...
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Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 22

1855 - 784 pages
...dissoluteness, and, as it were, total forgetfulness of God, it being Sunday evening, which this day se'nnight I was witness of; the King sitting and toying with...boy singing love- songs in that glorious gallery, whilst the courtiers were at basset, with a bank of at least 2,OOOZ. in gold before them" ! At eight...
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