Letters from England, Հատոր 1David Longworth, 1808 |
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Էջ 205 - Their health, physical and moral, is alike destroyed; they die of diseases induced by unremitting task work, by confinement in the impure atmosphere of crowded rooms, by the particles of metallic or vegetable dust which they are continually inhaling; or they live to grow up without decency, without comfort, and without hope, without morals, without religion, and without shame, and bring forth slaves like themselves, to tread in the same path of misery.
Էջ 132 - ... 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.
Էջ 209 - In size and population it is the second city in the kingdom, containing above fourscore thousand inhabitants. Imagine this multitude crowded together in narrow streets, the houses all built of brick and blackened with smoke ; frequent buildings among them as large as convents, without their antiquity, without their beauty, without their holiness ; where you hear from within, as you pass along, the everlasting din of machinery ; and where, when the bell rings, it is to call wretches to their work...
Էջ 129 - I rather wish ; so bishop Valentine Left us example to do deeds of charity ; To feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit The weak and sick ; to entertain the poor, And give the dead a Christian funeral : These were the works of piety he did practise, And bade us imitate; not look for lovers, Or handsome images to please our senses.
Էջ 192 - The noise of Birmingham is beyond description. The hammers seem never to be at rest. The filth is sickening. Filthy as some of our own old towns may be, their dirt is inoffensive: it lies in heaps, which annoy none, but those who walk within the little reach of their effluvia.
Էջ 202 - ... expense ; they get their bread almost as soon as they can run about, and by the time they are seven or eight years old bring in money. There is no idleness among us : — they come at five in the morning ; we allow them half an hour for breakfast, and an hour for dinner; they leave work at six, and another set relieves them for the night; the wheels never stand still.
Էջ 10 - Early in the morning our chaise was at the door, a four-wheeled carriage which conveniently carries three persons. It has glass in front and at the sides, instead of being closed with curtains, so that you at once see the country and are sheltered from the weather. Two horses drew us at the rate of a league and a half in the hour ; such is the rapidity with which the English travel. Half Penryn.
Էջ 135 - ... 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 labour have been driven out, and have perished by the way-side, because the birth-place of the child would be its parish.
Էջ 204 - Mr. was a man of humane and kindly nature, who would not himself use any thing cruelly, and judged of others by his own feelings. I thought of the cities in Arabian romance, where all the inhabitants were enchanted: here Commerce is the queen witch, and I had no talisman strong enough to disenchant those who were daily drinking of the golden cup of her charms.
Էջ 78 - ... in elegance of form and ornament, is ranged on a Japan waiter, also of the country fabric; for here they imitate every thing. The mistress sits at the head of the board, and opposite to her the boiling water smokes and sings in an urn of Etruscan shape. The coffee is contained in a smaller vase of the same shape, or in a larger kind of tea-pot, wherein the grain is suspended in a bag; but nothing is so detestable as an Englishman's coffee. The washing of our after-dinner cups would make a mixture...