 This day died Mr. Samuel Pepys, a very worthy, industrious and curious person, none in England exceeding him in knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed through all the most considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of the Admiralty,...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Side 4211907Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | John Evelyn - 1827 - 458 sider
...above ^1000,* every body covetting to hear her at their private houses. 26 May. This day died Mr. Sam. Pepys, a very worthy, industrious and curious person,...in England exceeding him in knowledge of the navy, in w ch he had passed thro' all the most considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of the... | |
 | Richard Brindley Hone - 1833 - 414 sider
...been on terms of great intimacy with Mr. Pepys, who died in 1703, " universally beloved," he says, " hospitable, generous, learned in many things, skilled...cherisher of learned men of whom he had the conversation." And he had found consolation in " the religious and pious circumstances" of the sickness and death... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1896 - 600 sider
...become few and far between, and we soon come upon the following notice : — ' This day died Mr. Sam. Pepys, a very worthy, industrious, and curious person, none in England exceeding him in knowledge of tho Navy, in which ho had passed through all tho more considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts, and... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1850 - 414 sider
...of this vain nation above £1000, everybody coveting to hear her at their private houses. 26th May. This day died Mr. Samuel Pepys, a very worthy, industrious...in England exceeding him in knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed through all the most considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1854 - 470 sider
...1000, everybody coveting to hear her at their private houses. 26th May. This day died Mr. Samuel Popys, a very worthy, industrious and curious person, none...in England exceeding him in knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed through all the most considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of... | |
 | 1913 - 916 sider
...mind, and I doubt not but he is now a very blessed spirit.' ' He was universally beloved,' says Evelyn, 'hospitable, generous, learned in many things, skilled...cherisher of learned men of whom he had the conversation.' Thus did the church and the world praise him. No doubt, he joined honestly enough in the words of the... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1862 - 446 sider
...a very noble house and sweet place, where he enjoyed the fruit of hia labours in great prosperity. He was universally beloved, hospitable, generous,...skilled in music, a very great cherisher of learned meu of whom he had the conversation. His library1 and collection of other curiosities were of the most... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1870 - 788 sider
...,£1000.1 every body covetting to hear her at their private houses. 26 May. This day died Mr. Sam. Pepys, a very worthy, industrious and curious person,...in England exceeding him in knowledge of the Navy, in which he had passed thro' all the most considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1875 - 552 sider
...only add the character given of Pepys by his intimate friend Evelyn in his Diary, May 26th, 1703:— " This day died Mr. Samuel Pepys, a very worthy, industrious,...in England exceeding him in knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed through all the most considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of... | |
 | John Evelyn - 1878 - 450 sider
...of this vain nation above d61000, everybody coveting to hear her at their private houses. 2Gth May. This day died Mr. Samuel Pepys, a very •worthy,...in England exceeding him in knowledge of the navy, in which he had passed through all the most considerable offices, Clerk of the Acts and Secretary of... | |
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