Letters from England, Volum 2Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1808 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 280 - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Pàgina 341 - And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.
Pàgina 273 - We have no longer faith in miracles and relics, and therefore with the same fury run after recipes and physicians. The same money which three hundred years ago was given for the health of the soul is now given for the health of the body, and by the same sort of people — women and half-witted men.
Pàgina 77 - ... 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.
Pàgina 263 - 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!
Pàgina 317 - 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.
Pàgina 82 - 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.
Pàgina 281 - 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.
Pàgina 215 - The hours are struck upon it with a hammer. I should tell you, that the method of sounding bells in England is not by striking, but by swinging them ; no bell, however, which approaches nearly to the size of this is ever moved, except this; it is swung on Whitsunday, and when the judges arrive to try the...
Pàgina 284 - Southey tells us that Graham was half-mad ; and his madness, at last, contrary to the usual practice, got the better of his knavery. Latterly he became wholly an enthusiast, would madden himself with ether, run out into the streets, and strip himself to clothe the first beggar whom he met.