Karl Philipp Moritz Quotes
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at,…
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and…
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all…
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I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still…
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the…
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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
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I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had…
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the…
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting…
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders, and the perfect unconcern with…
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St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.
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I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for…
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A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets…
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The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have…
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Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man…
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The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a…
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Westminster Abbey, the Tower, a steeple, one church, and then another, presented themselves to our view; and we could now plainly distinguish the high round…
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