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 - Page 1771908Full view - About this book
| Pepys Library - Archives - 1903 - 476 pages
...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.... | |
| Great Britain - 1903 - 478 pages
...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 - History - 1906 - 178 pages
...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 - History - 1906 - 198 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1909 - 396 pages
...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 - Authors, English - 1909 - 412 pages
...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 - British - 1912 - 492 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1917 - 330 pages
...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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