 Diary makes us comprehend the great historical events of the age, and the people who bore a part in them, and gives us more clear glimpses into the true English life of the times than all the other memorials of them that have come down to our own.  Notes and Queries - Page 4991851Full view - About this book
 | 1828 - 722 pages
...Review. " This work gives more clear and nudistorted glimpses into the true English life of the tinii'- , than all the other memorials of them that have come down to our own." — Edinburgh Review, " Publications of th'w kind are of the highest value." — Times. " We hesitate not to confess, that... | |
 | Dawson, William, & Sons, of London - 1809 - 344 pages
...portraits, 4 vols. 8vo. cloth, £1. 5. best library edition. 1854 " Pepys' Diary makes us comprehend the great historical events of the age, and the people...the times than all the other memorials of them that hare come down to our own."— Edinburgh Review. 4416 PEPYS' Life, Journals, and Correspondence, including... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1837 - 582 pages
..." THE WORK BEFORE us is OF VERY GREAT INTEREST AND CURIOSITY, and gives more clear and undistorted glimpses into the true English life of the times,...memorials of them that have come down to our own. A good deal of what it contains derives, no doubt, its chief interest from having happened 180 years... | |
 | Annie Forbes Bush - France - 1843 - 424 pages
...work of standard importance in English literature." — ATHENJEUM. " Pepys' Diary makes us comprehend the great historical events of the age, and the people who bore a part in them, and gives us moreVlear glimpses into the true English life of the times than all the other memorials of them that... | |
 | Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey - Edinburgh review - 1846 - 790 pages
...contem|KH'aries, better than we should ever have done without it; and make us feel more assured that we comprehend the great historical events of the age, and the people who bore a part in them. Independent of instruction altogether too, there is no denying, that it is very entertaining thus to... | |
 | Charles White - Istanbul (Turkey) - 1846 - 430 pages
...literature." — " Pepys' Diary makes us comprehend the great historical events of the age, and the ople who bore a part in them, and gives us more clear glimpses into the true English fc of the times than all the other memorials of them that have come down to our m."— T, DINBCROH... | |
 | William A. Ross - Scandinavia - 1848 - 350 pages
...work of standard importance in English literature." — ATHENAEUM. " Pepys' Diary makes us comprehend the great historical events of the age, and the people...have come down to our own." — EDINBURGH REVIEW. " There is much in Pepys' Diary that throws a distinct and vivid light over the picture of England... | |
 | Robert Stewart Castlereagh (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1848 - 506 pages
...work of standard importance in English literature." — ATHEX.EUM. " Pepys' Diary makes us comprehend the great historical events of the age, and the people...have come down to our own." — EDINBURGH REVIEW. " There is much in Pepys' Diary that throws a distinct and vivid light over the picture of England... | |
 | 1848 - 662 pages
...more characteristic and entertaining than the old." — ATHBN.IKUM. " Pepys' Diary makes us comprehend the great historical events of the age, and the people...that have come down to our own."— EDINBURGH REVIEW. LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND. BY MISS STRICKLAND. Complete in 12 vols. elegantly bound in morocco,... | |
 | Robert Stewart Castlereagh (Viscount) - Great Britain - 1848 - 524 pages
...work of standard importance in English literature." — ATHENAEUM. " Pepys' Diary makes us comprehend the great historical events of the age, and the people...memorials of them that have come down to our own." — EDINRURGH REVIEW. " There is much in Pepys' Diary that throws a distinct and vivid light over the... | |
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