A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England: In the Summer of 1835J. Murray, 1836 - 434 páginas |
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Página 253 - The face of places, and their forms, decay ; And that is solid earth, that once was sea : Seas, in their turn, retreating from the shore, Make solid land what ocean was before...
Página 58 - The latter is the usual time of proceeding to business, although, in cases of persons married by license, eight o'clock is the hour. " When all was ready and the church-doors opened, the clergyman and clerk betook themselves to the vestry ; and the people who were about to be married, and their friends, seated themselves in the body of the church, opposite the communion table, on benches which were placed there for the purpose. Not less than fifty people were assembled, among whom I took my seat...
Página 59 - Presently a sudden buzz broke out — ' the clergyman's coming,' and all was perfectly silent. About twelve couples were to be married, — the rest were friends and attendants. The former were called upon to arrange themselves altogether round the altar. The clerk was an adept in his business, and performed the duties of his office in a mode admirably calculated to set the people at their ease and direct the proceedings. In appointing them to their proper places, he addressed each in an intonation...
Página 57 - I attended the Old Church at Manchester one Monday morning, in order to witness the solemnization of several marriages I had reason to suppose were then and there to take place. I had heard on the preceding Sunday the...
Página 171 - ... viewing the interior of a manufactory of machinery, to observe the features of each hard-working mechanic, blackened by smoke, yet radiant with the light of intelligence, — to contrast with his humble station the lines of fervid thought that mark his countenance and direct his sinewy arm, — and to reflect that to such combination of the powers of mind and body, England owes her present state of commercial greatness. It is no less pleasing to consider, that although particular classes of men...
Página 59 - ... prevail a sentiment that obtains pretty generally among their betters, namely, the inclination to put shy people out of conceit with themselves. Thus, at the advance of a sheepish-looking bridegroom, he was immediately assailed on all sides with, ' Come in, man ; what art afraid of ? Nobody'l hurt thee." And then a general laugh went round in a repressed tone, but quite sufficient to confound and subdue the new comer. " Presently a sudden buzz broke out — ' The clergyman's coming,' and all...
Página 394 - Tour, that, after all precautions, a man in a divingbell is certainly in a state of awful dependence upon human aid : in case of the slightest accident to the air-pump, even a single stitch of the leathern hose giving way, long before that ponderous vessel could be raised to the surface of the water life must be extinct.
Página 252 - The lakes, which were left on the retiring of the diluvial currents, appear to have been continually diminished in depth, and contracted in extent, by deposits of vegetable matter, decayed shells, and sediment, brought into them by land-floods. In this manner a surprising number of inland lakes have been extinguished in Holderness, and nothing remains to denote their former existence, but the deposits by which they have been filled.
Página 52 - Cheshire." holding by the chains, were let down very easily. I cannot express the delight I felt at the scene around me, which surpassed any thing I had anticipated ; creating those sensations I remember to have felt when first I read of the pyramids and catacombs of Egypt. Here was a magnificent chamber, apparently of unlimited extent, whose flat roof presented an area so great, that one could not help being astonished at its not having long since given way. Yet there was no apparent want of security,...
Página 58 - Opposite sat the bride and bridegroom; the latter a spruce sandy-haired young man, looking flushed and eager. One of his arms was round the waist of the young lady, on whom he bestowed glances of the very tenderest description. In fact, attitude and all considered, I...