But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

The best of a bad bargain.

As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!

But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.

Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.