"A traveller on foot in this country seems……" — Karl Philipp Moritz
"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, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him."
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Karl Philipp Moritz
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22 Quotes by Karl Philipp Moritz
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general…
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great…
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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…
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole,…
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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…
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster…
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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,…
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was…
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These funerals always appear to me the more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders,…
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