ever did so unaccountable a thing to oblige his people by, as to dissolve a Commission of the Admiralty then in his own hand, who best understands the business of the sea of any prince the world ever had, and things never better done, and put it into... The Cambridge Modern History - الصفحة 1771908عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Pepys Library - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...admiralty did not find a lenient critic in Pepys. 'No king,' he wrote, 6 'ever did so unaccountable thing to oblige his people by, as to dissolve a commission...which he knew were wholly ignorant thereof, sporting himself with their ignorance.' The last phrase brings before us vividly the king's characteristic way.... | |
| 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...admiralty did not find a lenient critic in Pepys. ' No king,' he wrote, 6 ' ever did so unaccountable thing to oblige his people by, as to dissolve a commission...which he knew were wholly ignorant thereof, sporting himself with their ignorance.' The last phrase brings before us vividly the king's characteristic way.... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 178
...inexperienced men. 'No king,' wrote Pepys in his private minute-book 3 , ' ever did so unaccountable thing to oblige his people by, as to dissolve a commission...hand, who best understands the business of the sea 2 Pepysian MSS., No. 1,490, p. 73. 1 Evelyn's Diary (edition of 1875;), iii. 3 ib., No. ^,$66, Naval... | |
| Samuel Pepys - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 198
...inexperienced men. ‘No king,' wrote Pepys in his private minute-book 3, ‘ever did so unaccountable thing to oblige his people by, as to dissolve a commission...hand, who best understands the business of the sea Evelyn's Diary (edition of 1879), iii. i6y. 2 Pepysian MSS., No. 1,4.90, p. 73. ¿ ib., No. i,866,... | |
| Esther Meynell - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...Pepys wrote in his Naval Minutes: " No King ever did so unaccountable a thing to oblige his people, as to dissolve a commission of the Admiralty then...which he knew were wholly ignorant thereof, sporting himself with their ignorance." Nothing could be more characteristic of Charles's sardonic humour. He... | |
| Esther Meynell - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...Pepys wrote in his Naval Mi*uitc: “No King ever did so unaccountable a thing to oblige his people, as to dissolve a commission of the Admiralty then...prince the world ever had, and things never better donej and put it into hands which he knew were wholly ignorant thereof, sporting himself with their... | |
| Enid M. G. Routh - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 492
...of energy and honesty for the protection and encouragement of trade, to a king who "best understood the business of the sea of any Prince the world ever had," who in his boyhood had learnt to sail his own boat round the dangerous coasts of the Channel Islands,... | |
| Julian Stafford Corbett - 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 330
...than whom there was no better judge, could write of him in his most private memoranda, as a king ' who best understands the business of the sea of any Prince the world ever had,' and assures us that ' his Majesty possessed a transcendent mastery of all maritime knowledge.' ' In the... | |
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