Letters from England, Volume 1Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808 |
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Pagina 215 - I had supposed, in its doctrines, to the true faith; so nearly indeed, in some instances, that it would puzzle these heretics to explain the difference, or to account for it where it exists. With respect to the holiest sacrament, they admit that the body and blood of Christ is verily and indeed taken, and yet they deny the real presence. They give absolution regularly in their church-service, upon a public and general confession, which is equivalent to no confession at all.
Pagina 297 - ... to his own parish. Wherever a pauper dies that parish must be at the cost of his funeral: instances therefore have not been wanting of wretches in the last stage of disease having been hurried away in an open cart, upon straw, and dying upon the road. Nay, even women in the very pains of labor have been driven out, and have perished by the way-side, because the birth-place of the child -would be its parish.
Pagina 350 - While one of the flocks of fashion migrates to the sea-coast, another flies oftto the mountains of Wales, to the lakes in the northern provinces, or to Scotland ; some to mineralogize, some to botanize, some to take views of the country, — all to study the picturesque, a new science for which a new language has been formed, and for which the English have discovered a new sense in themselves, which assuredly ' was not possessed by their fathers.
Pagina 154 - ... in thickness. To give you an idea of the curiosity with which all these things are executed, is impossible ; nothing can be more perfect. Our breakfast table is oval, large enough for eight or nine persons, yet supported upon one claw in the centre. This is the newest fashion...
Pagina 296 - We talk of the liberty of the English, and they talk of their own liberty ; but there is no liberty in England for the poor. They are no longer sold with the soil, it is true ; but they cannot quit the soil if there be any probability or suspicion that age or infirmity may disable them. If in such a case they endeavor to remove to some situation •where they hope more easily to maintain themselves, •where work is more plentiful or provisions cheaper, the overseers are alarmed, the intruder is...
Pagina 291 - LAWS. sion of this, to form perhaps the most pardonable design which ever was laid against a king's life. He regularly joined the royal hounds, .put himself foremost, and took the most desperate leaps, in the hope that William might break his neck in following him. One day, however, he accomplished one so imminently hazardous, that the king when he came to. the spot shook his head and drew back. Shooting is pursued with the same zeal. Many...
Pagina 95 - Hundreds will go to see this, not recollecting that it is as impossible to do it upon a stage of that size, as it is to put a quart of water into a pint cup. Illuminations are better managed at Rome. Imagine the vast dome of St Peter's covered with large lamps so arranged as to display its fine form ; those lamps all kindled at the same minute, and the whole dome emerging, as it were, from total darkness, in one blaze of light. After this exhibition has lasted an hour, the dome as rapidly assumes...
Pagina 321 - ... from each other. It was a sight which awed me and made me melancholy. I was looking down upon the habitations of a million of human. beings ; upon the single spot whereon were crowded together more wealth, more splendour, more ingenuity, more worldly wisdom, and, alas ! more worldly blindness, poverty, depravity, dishonesty and wretchedness, than upon any other spot in the whole habitable earth.
Pagina 6 - ... on fire ; it contained his whole property ; and when he found it was in vain to attempt saving any thing, he went upon the nearest hill and made a drawing of the conflagration: — an admirable instance of English phlegm!
Pagina 6 - The perpetual stir and bustle in this inn is as surprising as it is wearisome. Doors opening and shutting, bells ringing, voices calling to the waiter from every quarter, while he cries " coming," to one room, and hurries away to another.