Book Description

The Sayings of Samuel Pepys, one of the most important English diarists, collected in an attractive new package; 'The nature of the English is generally to be self-lovers, and thinking everything of their own the best, viz. Our beef, beer, women, horses, religion, laws, etc' 'So home to bed, pleased as I always am after I have rid a great deal of work, it being very satisfactory to me' 'God forgive me, I do still see that my nature is not to be quite conquered, but will esteem pleasure above all things' Samuel Pepys made his mark on English history with his work for the navy, but it is his diaries that have made his name immortal. No Englishman has had a greater zest for life, a more delighted vitality, than Samuel Pepys. Avid for pleasure, he was no less passionate for efficiency. Enjoying beauty in all its form, he was also a man of insatiable intellectual curiosity, President of the Royal Society, friend and patron of Scholars, never bored, he himself is never boring. Nothing was beneath his notice and nothing above it. His Diary brings the whole age of Charles II before us as no other text does.