This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...from the service of his country to a private existence of indolence and ease. His Puritan leaven, no doubt, disgusted him with the scandals of the court after the Restoration, and there is nothing to shew that, in his personal habits, he had any inclination to drinking and immorality. We must, in excuse for his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ...from the service of his country to a private existence of indolence and ease. His Puritan leaven, no doubt, disgusted him with the scandals of the court after the Restoration, and there is nothing to shew that, in his personal habits, he had any inclination to drinking and immorality. We must, in excuse for his apparent want of energy, remember this--that his health, at any rate in his later years, was exceedingly bad. When we come to his wife's diary we shall find constant references to " my lord's " illnesses; and in her autobiography she draws a deplorable picture of his sufferings. After referring to his death and the grief it caused her, she says: --"Though God had given me many years to provide for our separation by seeing my poor husband almost daily dying (for God had been pleased for above twenty years to afflict him with the gout more constantly and painfully than almost any person the doctors said they had ever seen), yet I still flattered myself with hopes of his life, though he had for many years quite lost the use of his limbs, and never put his feet to the ground, nor was able to feed himself, nor turn in his bed but by the help of his servants; and by those constant pains he was so weakened and wasted that he was like a mere skeleton." This extremity of suffering and dependence can only have been Lord Warwick's portion during the last few years of his life, since we find him paying several visits to London between 1666, when the diary begins, and his death in 1673. But even for a comparatively short time to be reduced to such utter helplessness must have been a trial of the heaviest sort to a man hardly past the prime of life. We have seen that Lord Warwick was not an evil-liver, after the fashion of those times--not an un...
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