A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Volume 2

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Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1855 - Great Britain - 468 pages
 

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Page 221 - You are queen of all these countries, and if you leave this large kingdom, where will you get such another ? If you should do it — as I hope you won't for all this — both you and we shall have cause, when it is too late, to be sorry for it ; therefore my fellows and I pray you to think better on't, and...
Page 440 - Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
Page 440 - Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men! 32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders.
Page 214 - I will tell you," said the Queen ; " the Hollanders reported to me a great while since that all the noblesse of England were of the king's party, and none but mechanics of the Parliament party, and not a gentleman among them ; now I thought to try you, and to shame you if you could not dance ; but I see that you are a gentleman, and have been bred a gentleman ; and that makes me say the Hollanders are lying fellows.
Page 221 - O Lord God, Madam, what do you mean to do ? It troubles us to hear you speak of forsaking those that love you so well as we do.
Page 222 - When the boor had ended his speech, he waddled up to the Queen without any ceremony, took her by the hand and shook it heartily, and kissed it two or three times ; then, turning his back to her, he pulled out * Voltaire: " Siècle de Louis XIV.,
Page 166 - ... the republic of England ; do hereby make known and teftify to all and every one whom it concerns, or whom it may in any meafure concern, That whereas in the treaty made at Upfal, the nth of April 1654, between the moft Serene and Potent Princefs Chriftina, by the grace of God Queen of the Swedes, Goths, and Vandals...
Page 221 - I pray you to think better on't, and keep your crown on. your head, then you will keep your own honour and our peace, but if you lay it down, in my conscience, you will endanger all. ' Continue in your gears, good madam, and be the fore-horse as long as you live, and we will help you the best we can to bear your burthen.
Page 185 - ... house, after the English manner ; and the Queen and her company seemed highly pleased with this treatment ; some of her company said she did eat and drink more at it, than she used to do in three or four days at her own table. The entertainment was as full and noble as the place would afford, and as Whitelocke could make it, and so well ordered and contrived, that the Queen said she had never seen any like it : she was pleased so far to play the good housewife, as to...
Page 177 - Monday next is the first day of May, a great day in England ; we call it May-day, when the gentlemen use to wait upon their mistresses abroad to bid the Spring welcome, and to have some collation or entertainment for them. Now your Majesty being my mistress, if you will do me the honour, that, after the custom of England, I may wait on you on May-day, and have a little treatment for you after the manner of England ; this I call going into England, and shall take it as a very great favour from your...

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