| John Luard - 1852 - 424 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one morning into the house well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was also plain, and not very... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1853 - 770 pages
...in the very beginning of the Parliament held in November, 1640. I came into the house one morning, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, whicli seemed to have been made by an ill country- tailor ; his linen was plain and not very... | |
| Dr. Doran (John) - 1855 - 428 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes. I came one morning into the house well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not,..., ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
| Charles C. Savage - 1856 - 624 pages
...appearance in the house of commons at this period : " I came one morning into the house woll cl;id, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
| Francis Lister Hawks - 1856 - 448 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes.) I came one morning into the house, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, (whom I knew not,)...very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain and not very clean... | |
| 1856 - 590 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good cloaths. I came into the house one morning well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor. His linen was plain, and not very clean,... | |
| Mark Napier - 1856 - 500 pages
...courtiers valued ourselves much upon our good clothes : I came one morning into the house well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking (whom I knew not), very ordinarily apparelled, for it was a plain cloth-suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor; his linen was plain, and not very... | |
| Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle - 1857 - 416 pages
...' much upon our good clothes ! I came into the House one morn' ing,' Monday morning, ' well clad ; and perceived a gentleman ' speaking, whom I knew...ordinarily apparelled ; for it ' was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill ' country-tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very... | |
| John Langton Sanford - 1858 - 650 pages
...previously, and among others delivered the foregoing speech. *~Harl. MSS. 162, p. 4. one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean,... | |
| Oliver Cromwell - 1859 - 592 pages
...selves much upon our good clothes ! I came into the House one morning ' Monday morning, ' well clad ; and perceived a gentleman speaking, whom I knew not,...very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit, which seemed to have been made by an ill country-tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean... | |
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