| 1818 - 606 pages
...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,... | |
| 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 pages
...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,... | |
| 1819 - 630 pages
...whilst about twenty of the great 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,... | |
| 1819 - 552 pages
...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 - 808 pages
...gallery, whilst abonte 2O of y* greate courtiers and other rlissolute persons were .it Busiet round n large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them, upon wk two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the... | |
| 1820 - 422 pages
...King sitting with about 20 of the greate courtiers and other dissolute persons, who were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold before them ; six days after was all in the dust !' *7. 1802. — MARGATE HOY LOST. *7. 1807. — WILLIAM STEVENS... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 636 pages
...glorious gallery, whilst about twenty of the great courtiers and other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least 2000 in gold...them, upon which two gentlemen who were with me made reflexions with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust !' . The circumstances which ensued... | |
| Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...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.,... | |
| Joseph Jean M.C. Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 450 pages
...other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand pounds in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who...with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust !" The conduct of James completed the ruin of the Stuarts in the opinion of the English nation. The... | |
| Amédée Pichot - 1825 - 454 pages
...other dissolute persons were at basset round a large table, a bank of at least two thousand pounds in gold before them, upon which two gentlemen who...with astonishment. Six days after was all in the dust !" The conduct of James completed the ruin of the Stuarts in the opinion of the English nation. The... | |
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