 The special interest of the book lies in the picture of the exiled Royalist, cheerfully sacrificing everything for the King's cause, struggling with his debts, talking over his creditors, never losing confidence in the ultimate triumph of the right, and...  Additions to the Library - Página 797por Boston Athenaeum - 1885Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle - 1886 - 530 páginas
...contributions to the military history of the civil wars. The special interest of the book lies rather in the picture of the exiled royalist, cheerfully...uncomplainingly to restore his ruined estate. It lies rather in the portrait drawn of a great English nobleman of the seventeenth century ; his manners and... | |
 | Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle - 1886 - 498 páginas
...right, and on his return setting to work uncomplainingly to restore his ruined estate. It lies rather in the portrait drawn of a great English nobleman of the seventeenth century ; his manners and his habits, his occupations and amusements, his maxims and his opinions, his domestic policy and his alliances... | |
 | Susan Staves - 2006 - 414 páginas
...picture of the exiled royalist . . . never losing confidence in the ultimate triumph of the right . . . in the portrait drawn of a great English nobleman of the seventeenth century; his manners and his habits, his domestic policy ... all are recorded and set down with the loving fidelity of a Boswell."14... | |
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