Letters from England, 第 2 巻

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Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808
 

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286 ページ - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
334 ページ - If ye abide in me, the works that I do shall ye do also, and greater works than these shall ye do, because I go unto my Father.
269 ページ - I AM an Englishman; and naked I stand here, Musing in my mind, What raiment I shall wear? For now, I will wear this! and now, I will wear that! Now, I will wear, I cannot tell what!
88 ページ - ... 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.
91 ページ - ... system. This system is the boast of England, long may she continue to boast it before Spain shall rival her! Yet this is the system which we envy, and which we are so desirous to imitate. Happily our religion presents one obstacle; that incessant labour which is required in these task-houses can never be exacted in a Catholic country, where the Church has wisely provided so many days of leisure for the purposes of religion and enjoyment.
197 ページ - This pillar was erected in the year 1656, by Ann, Countess Dowager of Pembroke, &c. for a memorial of her last parting, in this place, with her good and pious mother, Margaret, Countess Dowager of Cumberland, on the 2d of April, 1616; in memory whereof she hath left an annuity of 41.
366 ページ - I must have been a ^enant of tenants. Finding nothing could be done with the earthholders, I turned my eyes another way, and determined to build my stories in the heaven, (Amos ix. 6,) where I should find more room and less rent...
221 ページ - Tom, which iss the familiar abbreviation of. Thomas, seems to be the only name which they give to a bell in this country. Only one coach passes through Lincoln on the way to London, and that early in the morning, we were therefore obliged to return again into the great north road, which we did by taking chaise to Newark ; the road is a straight line, along an old Roman way. A bridge over the Trent and...
86 ページ - It would have been in vain to argue had I been disposed to it. 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. We purchase English cloth, English muslins, English buttons, &c. and admire...
287 ページ - Or, set the patient with his head under a great water-fall, as long as his strength will bear: or, pour water on his head out of a tea-kettle: 475.

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