Category: Travel Writing
The Author of the following Observations, made during #A MORNING'S WALK#, will doubtless be allowed to possess but a moderate degree of literary ambition. He has not qualified himself, by foreign travels, to transport his readers above the clouds, on the Andes, the Alps, or th...
The Author of the following Observations, made during #A MORNING'S WALK#, will doubtless be allowed to possess but a moderate degree of literary ambition. He has not qualified h...
2. Chapter 2I amused myself with a calculation of the probable number of persons who thus every day, between eight and six, pass to and from London within a distance of seven miles. In the...
3. Chapter 3Opposite the superb terrace of the Hospital gardens, stands a tea-drinking house, called _the Red House_; and about fifty yards on the western side of it is the place at which C...
4. Chapter 4This walk brought me to a large distillery, which still bears the name of York House, and was a seat of the Archbishops of York, from the year 1480 to its alienation. Here resid...
5. Chapter 5He was succeeded by Sir Jeffrey Dunstan, who was returned for three parliaments, and was the most popular candidate that ever appeared on the Garrat hustings. His occupation was...
6. Chapter 6In a Village once famous for its manufactories, which, as the effect of the wicked Policy that involved the country in twenty years' warfare, have lost their powers of giving em...
7. Chapter 7A stage-coach toiling against this road of six degrees inclination, and a flour-waggon traversing from side to side to lengthen the hypotheneuse, yet stopping at every hundred y...
8. Chapter 8I have long thought that a system of telegraphs for domestic purposes would constitute one perfection of civilization in any country. Multifarious are the occasions in which ind...
9. Chapter 9I am desirous of advancing no opinions which can be questioned, yet I cannot refrain from mentioning, in connexion with this wooded horizon, my surprise that peculiar species of...
10. Chapter 10The bottom of Roehampton-lane joins the road which leads from Putney and Wandsworth to Richmond. Here I came again upon the same alluvial Flat which I left when I ascended from...
11. Chapter 11At the end of this lane I crossed a road, which I found led to Chiswick Ferry. The opening gave increased effect to the renewed peal, and I regretted that I could not then indul...
12. Chapter 12In considering the curious enigma in regard to #FATALITY#, men err in conceiving that all the remote causes which lead to an event, operate and combine for the sake of some part...
13. Chapter 131815, Living individual 1 1785, His father and mother 2 1755, Their fathers and mothers 4 1725, ditto 8 1695, ditto 16 1665, ditto 32 1635, ditto 64 1605, ditto 128 1575, ditto...
14. Chapter 14[6] While these pages were printing, the Common Council of London, the second deliberative assembly in the empire, have presented an address to the Throne, in which they describ...
15. Chapter 15I could not, even in thus transiently glancing at these meagre remains, avoid the interesting recollection, that this portico once served as a sanctuary for the contrition of gu...
16. Chapter 16[8] The system of Physics which I have for many years inculcated, in the hope of removing from Philosophy the equivocal word _attraction_, supposes that space is filled with an...
17. Chapter 17The creature of an hour, whose chief care it is to live and indulge his self-love, who cannot see without light, nor distinctly above a few inches from the eye, is wholly incomp...
18. Chapter 18The ground served them for a table, and the grass for a table-cloth. The mixture of their viands with dirty rags, and other disgusting objects, proved that they possess no senti...
19. Chapter 19Cæsar, his passage of the Thames Causeways, necessity of improving Cards, their absurd prognostics Cause of causes, its instruments ----, its incomprehensibleness Catechism of S...