...Englishmen. That at least is the opinion of the sagacious Pepys on the later of these incidents. ' Lord ! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at anything that looks strange.' Defoe says that the English are ' the most churlish people alive ' to...

...the people that were under it, I saw them pretty well go by. I could not see the Embassador in his coach ; but his attendants in their habits and fur...laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange. 28th. A very hard frost ; which is news to us after having none almost these three years. By ten o'clock...

...the people that were under it, I saw them pretty well go by. I could not see the Embassador in his coach ; but his attendants in their habits and fur caps very handsome, comely men, aud most of them with hawkes upon their fists to present to the King. But, Lord | to see the absurd...

...them pretty well go by. I could 1 Henry Slingsby, Master of the Mint. not see the Embassador in his coach ; but his attendants in their habits and fur...laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange. 28th. A very hard frost ; which is news to us after having none almost these three years. By ten o'clock...

...the people that were under it) I saw them pretty well go by. I could not see the Embassador in his coach ; but his attendants in their habits and fur...laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange. So back to the office, and there we met and sat till seven o'clock, making a bargain with Mr. Wood...

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...ready to receive him. Pepys did not see the Ambassador in his coach, but he was pleased with the " attendants in their habits and fur caps, very handsome, comely men, and most of them with hawks upon their fists to present to the King." He adds, however, "But, Lord! to see the absurd nature...

...comely men, and most of them with hawks upon their fists to present to the King." He adds, however, "But, Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange." The high road of Newgate Street was formerly crowded in a most inconvenient...

...and laughter in England. " But Lord I " writes Pepys, when the Russian ambassador comes to London, " to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange ! " But notwithstanding the protest that naturally rises at this British...