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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.
• 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…
• 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…
• It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
• 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…
• On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
• The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.
• 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…
• A pedestrian seems in this country to be a sort of beast of passage - stared at, pitied, suspected and shunned by everyone who meets…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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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