Author: Charles Chadwicke JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Recollections of Royalty
Author: Charles Chadwicke JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Court Fragments : Or, Recollections of Royalty, from the Death of Rufus in 1100, to that of the Cardinal York, the Last Descendant of the Stuarts in 1807
Author: Charles Chadwicke JonesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Recollections of Royalty, from the Death of William Rufus, in 1100, to that of the Cardinal York ...
Author: Charles C. JonesRoyal Chef
Author: Gabriel TschumiPublisher:
ISBN: 9780718304331
Category : Cooking, British
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Recollections of Royal Navy Commander James Anthony Gardner
Author: James Anthony GardnerPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465536183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
In many respects the present volume differs from the most of those which have been issued by the Society; there is in it very little history, as commonly understood. The author, it is true, lived in a stirring time, and was himself an actor in some of the incidents which have shed a glory on our naval records; but his account of these is meagre and of little importance. The interest which attaches to his ‘Recollections’ is entirely personal and social; we have in them sketches roughly drawn, crude, inartistic, and perhaps on that account the more valuable, of the life of the time; of the men who were his companions in the berth, or the gunroom or the wardroom; on deck, in sport or in earnest. In all this, there is perhaps little that we did not know before in an otiose sort of way. We knew that the men of the time were often coarse in speech, rude in action; but it may be that the reality, as portrayed by Commander Gardner, exceeds anything that we had imagined. It seems to carry us back to the days of Roderick Random, and to suggest that there had been but small improvement since Smollett wrote his celebrated description. A closer examination will correct this impression; will convince us that there had, on the contrary, been a good deal of improvement; that the life was less hard, the manners less rude; and if the language does not show very much difference, it has to be considered that Smollett was writing for the public and Gardner was not; that Smollett’s dialogues are more or less literary, and Gardner’s are, for the most part, in the vernacular. Occasionally, indeed, the language has been modified, or its undue strength merely indicated by a ——; but where oaths and expletives formed such a large part of the conversational currency between intimates; when ‘son of a bitch’ was the usual equivalent of the modern ‘chappie’ or ‘Johnnie’ or ‘rotter’; when ‘damned’ was everywhere recognised as a most ordinary intensitive, and ‘damn your eyes’ meant simply ‘buck up,’ it has been felt that entirely to bowdlerise the narrative would be to present our readers with a very imperfect picture of the life of the day. Independent of the language, the most striking feature of the portraits is the universal drunkenness. It is mentioned as a thing too common to be considered a fault, though—if carried to excess—an amiable weakness, which no decent commanding officer would take serious notice of. Looking down the lists of old shipmates and messmates, the eye is necessarily caught by the frequency of such entries as ‘too fond of grog,’ ‘did not dislike grog,’ ‘passionately fond of grog,’ ‘a drunken Hun,’ a term of reprobation as a bully, rather than as a drunkard, ‘fond of gin grog,’ ‘mad from drink,’ ‘insane from drink,’ and so on, passim. For the officer of the watch to be drunk scarcely called for comment; it was only when, in addition to being drunk, he turned the captain out at midnight to save the ship, that he narrowly escaped being brought to a court martial; ‘but we interceded for him, and the business was looked over’ (p. 217).
Recollections of a Royal Parish
Author: Patricia Robertson LindsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crathie and Braemar (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
"The book is a brief recollection by the author about her father, Dr. Robertson of Hopewell, Aberdeenshire, who served as Commissioner in Scotland for Queen Victoria from 1848 to 1875. The author also gives a brief account of Balmoral, its history and its surroundings and her own personal experiences with the royal family.".
The Little Princesses
Author: Marion CrawfordPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312312156
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
An account of the childhoods and early adulthoods of Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, as told by one of their primary caregivers, offers insight into early twentieth-century British royal life.
Royal Recollections on a Tour to Cheltenham
Author: David WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Reminiscences of Michael Kelly
Author: Michael KellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ...
Author: George Peabody LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description