Letters from England: Translated from the Spanish |
Common terms and phrases
Ambleside appear Avignon Beau Nash beautiful become believe body bridge called Calvinists cathedral Catholic chaise character church Church of England clergy coach colour crosier custom devil divine earth England English Ennerdale evil fashion favour feeling fire half heard heaven heresy heretics holy honour horses human immediately Jews Joanna Southcott Keswick king kingdom labour lake land late leagues less LETTER live London look Lord Markham Moor ment morning mountains nation never night ornament passed perhaps persons poor priest produce Quakers racter religion remarkable Richard Brothers river road round schism seems seen side sight Skiddaw Socinians soon Spain spirit stage stone streets suffered suppose thing thou thought tion told town trade travelling trees truth walk Westminster Abbey whole woman women word
Popular passages
Page 333 - Is there no balm in Gilead ; is there no physician there ? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Page 302 - ... the mother of crimes; new prisons are built, new punishments enacted; but the poor become year after year more numerous, more miserable, and more depraved; and this is the inevitable tendency of the manufacturing 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...
Page 341 - 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.
Page 387 - And a great portent appeared in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; 2 she was with child and she cried out in her pangs of birth, in anguish for delivery.
Page 365 - As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page 277 - If in such a case they endeavour to remove to 51 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 apprehended as if he were a criminal and sent back to his own parish. Wherever a pauper dies that parish must be...
Page 333 - 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.
Page 346 - ... moved thy heart to give, guided thy hand to cut; because He perfectly knows my size, having clothed me in a miraculous manner for near five years. When you are in trouble, Sir, I hope you will tell my Master of this, and what you have done for me, and He will repay you with honour.
Page 345 - Exod. xxviii. 42, 43. By which, and three others, namely, Ezek. xliv. 18; Lev. vi. 10; and Lev. xvi. 4; I saw that it was no crime to mention the word breeches, nor the way in which God sent them to me; Aaron and his sons being clothed entirely by Providence; and as God himself condescended to give orders what they should be made of, and how they should be cut. And I believe the same God ordered mine, as 1 trust it will appear in the following history.
Page 297 - ... infernal noises, and my eyes with the light of infernal fires, — I may add, my heart also, at the sight of so many human beings employed in infernal occupations, and looking as if they were never destined for anything better.