The Diary of Samuel Pepys ...: for the First Time Fully Transcribed from the Shorthand Manuscript in the Pepysian Library - Softcover

Samuel Pepys

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461214458 ISBN 13: 9780461214451

Synopsis

Excerpt from Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys From His Ms. Cypher in the Pepsyian Library, 1885, Vol. 1: With a Life and Notes by Richard Lord BraybrookeMilverton. Let us take five or six of the men who are best known to the world. Now they shall not be saints or martyrs; or men especially renowned for goodness of any kind. I will choose them only from the fact that they happen to be well known to us - not their lives particularly, but themselves. The men I will choose are Horace, Dante, Montaigne, Pepys, Dr. Johnson, and Rousseau.Ellesmere. A queer collection. How they would have quarrelled!Milverton. I don't know about that. All I contend for is, that there is much to admire and like in each of these men, however great their faults may have been.Sir Arthur. Pepys?Ellesmere. The best chosen of all. Now, there is a book I have read - his Diary - over and over again. I give Milverton great credit for choosing him. He does not pretend to be a mass of virtue, but, after all, how much good and worth there is in the fellow. I look upon that Diary of his as the truest book ever written. Even when he condescends to conformity, you can see that he does not take in himself, or wish to take in any reader, if that Diary was ever intended to be read. One day he goes in a barge with the King and the Duke of York. "Good Lord!" he says, "what poor stuff they did talk." Then recollecting that, as an official man, he must not, even to himself, run down his official superiors, he adds, "But God be praised, they are both of them princes of marvellous nobleness and spirit."About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Edition details

• ISBN 10: 0461214458
• ISBN 13: 9780461214451
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English