This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...genius and art, to say nothing of the competitions of science and skill in which they have so often On the 22nd of the month, accidents occurred allover London, from a remarkable fog. Carriages ran against each other, and persons were knocked down by them at the crossings. The whole gang of thieves seemed to be let ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...genius and art, to say nothing of the competitions of science and skill in which they have so often On the 22nd of the month, accidents occurred allover London, from a remarkable fog. Carriages ran against each other, and persons were knocked down by them at the crossings. The whole gang of thieves seemed to be let loose. After perpetrating their deeds. they eluded detection by darting into the fog. It was of an opake, dingy yellow. Torches were used as guides to carriages at mid-day, but gave scarcely any light through the fog. I went out for a few minutes. It was dismal. taken an active part on public occasions, and at public exhibitions, abroad, with results which are before the world. _CHAPTER xx. AMERICANS ABROAD.--CASES OF ARBUTHNOT AND AM. BRISTER.---OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.--RO'YAL SPEECH BY COMMISSION.--DINNER AT MR. WELLESLEY POLE'S; January 1, I819. Twelve of my countrymen dined with me. One or two were residents of London; the remainder, here on their travels. Some were going to Italy; others had been, or were going, to France, and other parts of the Continent. It has been my habit to see my countrymen at my table as often as in my power. To-day, as generally on these occasions, we indulged in home topics. Admire as we may what we see abroad, who among us that has ever left his own country, does not feel that his warmest affections point to it as a centre? Though we cannot, in its infancy, claim for it all the monuments of.science, letters, and the arts, that are the slow growth of time, we have already, under each, made rapid progress. In some, we belie-ve that we have made improve z ments. The prospect before us is full of hope; not resting on idle boast, but the realities of the past. A noble freedom is ours, resting on the broad basis of...
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