Quotations from Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
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page 70 of 138 (50%)
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Gold holds up its price still
Have not any awe over them from the King's displeasure (Commons) He will do no good, he being a man of an unsettled head I did get her hand to me under my cloak I perceive no passion in a woman can be lasting long Mazer or drinking-bowl turned out of some kind of wood Mirrors which makes the room seem both bigger and lighter Outdo for neatness and plenty anything done by any of them Poll Bill Saying, that for money he might be got to our side Sermon without affectation or study Some ends of my own in what advice I do give her The pleasure of my not committing these things to my memory Very great tax; but yet I do think it is so perplexed Where a piece of the Cross is Whip this child till the blood come, if it were my child! Whom, in mirth to us, he calls Antichrist Wonders that she cannot be as good within as she is fair without Yet let him remember the days of darkness DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, FEBRUARY 1966/67 [sp58g10.txt] Being taken with a Psalmbook or Testament Consider that this is all the pleasure I live for in the world Dinner, an ill and little mean one, with foul cloth and dishes If the word Inquisition be but mentioned King's service is undone, and those that trust him perish |
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