The Verneys: A True Story of Love, War, and Madness in Seventeenth-Century EnglandPenguin, 2008. máj. 6. - 592 oldal The remarkable story of one English family during the tumultuous seventeenth century, as revealed through their original letters and documents. "To know the Verneys is to know the seventeenth century," Adrian Tinniswood writes in this brilliant book. The Verney family's centuries-long practice of saving every piece of paper that came into their possession -- amassing some 100,000 pages of family and estate letters and documents -- resulted in the largest and most complete private collection of seventeenth-century correspondence in the Western world to date. They paint an incredibly accurate and detailed picture of life in England, Europe, and even the American colonies, through the everyday lives of one extraordinary family. |
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... told about Sir Francis were true, he had seen more of death than most men. One of the most feared pirates on the Barbary Coast, he was said to have seen dear friends fall at his side with Berber arrows in their backs as they rode like ...
... told about Sir Francis were true, he had seen more of death than most men. One of the most feared pirates on the Barbary Coast, he was said to have seen dear friends fall at his side with Berber arrows in their backs as they rode like ...
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... told him that "Henry the Eighth pull'd down Monks and their cells, / Henry the Ninth should pull down Bishops and their Bells," he was saying no more than everyone knew.1r Prince Henry hated Catholicism and all aspects of Anglicanism ...
... told him that "Henry the Eighth pull'd down Monks and their cells, / Henry the Ninth should pull down Bishops and their Bells," he was saying no more than everyone knew.1r Prince Henry hated Catholicism and all aspects of Anglicanism ...
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... told "to have them done out of hand, and yet with great state and costliness";11 the plans were sent back to Spain for approval, and with great ceremony on May 16 the Spanish ambassador, Don Carlos Coloma, laid the first stone of the ...
... told "to have them done out of hand, and yet with great state and costliness";11 the plans were sent back to Spain for approval, and with great ceremony on May 16 the Spanish ambassador, Don Carlos Coloma, laid the first stone of the ...
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... told Ralph that the Imperial military commander Albrecht von Wallenstein had been murdered by command of the emperor; that French and Dutch fleets were nearing the English coast; that "the great Turk sends for his edicts through the ...
... told Ralph that the Imperial military commander Albrecht von Wallenstein had been murdered by command of the emperor; that French and Dutch fleets were nearing the English coast; that "the great Turk sends for his edicts through the ...
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Tartalomjegyzék
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A Little Fading Honor | 95 |
The Best of Men | 118 |
Fortunes Wheel Is Ever Turning | 137 |
This World Is Full of Changes | 157 |
IO A Strange Cruelty | 205 |
Mischief | 231 |
Oh My My Dear Dear | 253 |
All the Physic in the World | 355 |
She Doth Not Rave | 379 |
The Levant Trader | 396 |
Natural Bias | 421 |
Good Husbandry | 446 |
Without Escutcheons | 466 |
He Grows Weary | 490 |
Acknowledgments | 511 |
Giro dItalia | 273 |
None but Princes | 299 |
Mend Me or End Me | 319 |
Perfect Empress of My Heart | 336 |
Bibliography | 545 |
Index | 557 |
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