The pleasures of the table were much pursued.

Love was treated more as an appetite than a passion.
The one sex began to abate of the national character of chastity, without being able to inspire the other with sentiment or delicacy.
The abuses in the former age, arising from overstrained pretensions to piety, had much propagated the spirit of irreligion; and many of the ingenious men of this period lie under the imputation of Deism.

Besides wits and scholars by profession, Saftesbury, Halifax, Buckingham, Mulgrave, Sunderland Essex, Rochester, Sidney, Temple, are supposed to have adopted these principles.
The same factions which formerly distracted the nation were revived, and exerted themselves in the most ungenerous and unmanly enterprises against each other.

King Charles, being in his whole deportment a model of easy and gentleman-like behavior, improved the politeness of the nation; as much as faction, which of all things is most destructive to that virtue, could possibly permit.

His courtiers were long distinguishable in England by their obliging and agreeable manners.
Till the revolution, the liberty of the press was very imperfectly enjoyed in England, and during a very short period.