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Samuel Pepys, mittellos gestartet, erarbeitet sich in der zweiten Hälfte des 17.Jahrhunderts eine einflussreiche Position im Amt für Marine der
Samuel Pepys, mittellos gestartet, erarbeitet sich in der zweiten Hälfte des 17.Jahrhunderts eine einflussreiche Position im Amt für Marine der
«He had no real home of his own (…); no children to carry his name forward and keep his memory
«Speeches and Stories»
«Three Janes»
«Elizabeth never found out.»
«War»
«Pepys made another vow to leave women alone and this time kept it until it ran out on 15 May.»
«His hostility and aggression take on particularly dark colours when he describes himself making sexual advances to Penn’s daughter Pegg.»
«God’s name comes up in his pages as a tic of usage, routine rather than reverential (…)»
«Without his enthusiasm for himself, the Diary would hardly have begun to take shape as it did.»