Letters from England: by don Manual Alvarez Espriella, Том 2

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Страница 283 - Is there no balm in Gilead ? Is there no physician there ? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered ?
Страница 267 - 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!
Страница 277 - 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.
Страница 361 - ... bespeak a pair ; and to get him to trust me until my Master sent me money to pay him. I was that day going to London, fully determined to bespeak them as I rode through the town. However, when I passed the shop I forgot it ; but when I came to London I called on Mr. Croucher, a shoemaker in Shepherd's Market, who told me a parcel was left there for me, but what it was he knew not. I opened it, and behold there was a pair of leather breeches, with a note in them ! the substance of which was, to...
Страница 219 - ... 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...
Страница 363 - The heaven, even the heavens, are the LORD'S : but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Страница 90 - They would not be crowded in hot taskhouses by day, and herded together in damp cellars at night ; they would not toil in unwholesome employments from sunrise till sunset, whole days, and whole days and quarters, for with twelve hours...
Страница 362 - ... 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.
Страница 86 - They are deprived in childhood of all instruction and all enjoyment ; of the sports in which childhood instinctively indulges, of fresh air by day and of natural sleep by night. 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...
Страница 359 - 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.

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