By A. Rauch
An annotated version of an American's attractive account of tradition and politics in England in the course of a vital interval in British background. This new variation positive factors an intensive advent, a variety of primary-source appendices, and different serious gear.
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There was one book I saw which I thought a great curiosity. 27 I could not distinguish them by feeling, but suppose a blind person could, as the Figure 1 Illustration of a blind beggar from John Thomas Smith’s Etchings of Remarkable Beggars, Itinerant Tradesman, and Other Persons of Notoriety (1815). Author’s collection. THE JOURNAL OF JOSEPH BALLARD 31 sense of feeling is with them more acute. I was extremely fortunate in my visit to the blind asylum28 as I found the objects of its charity were engaged in singing.
A large iron bar was inserted in the month of the pot, while another crossed it. The men, clothed in wet sacks, bore it along until it was fixed, in its proper situation. A few years ago a workman slipped and fell into the furnace but was not injured, the sack preventing his being burned. At Warrington I became acquainted with Mrs. I. and daughter, with whom I was much pleased. When I entered the house I found Miss I. occupied in the old-fashioned Yankee employment of darning stockings. I was delighted with the ease with which I was received.
73 Guildhall74 is a very large building but, with the exception of a few monuments, is not handsome. These monuments are quite elegant and are erected in memory of Chatham,75 Pitt,76 Nelson77 & Beckford,78 the last representing Beckford in his Mayor’s robes holding in his hand the famous speech which he made to the King in 1770. This was erected by the city as a testimony of their approbation of his sentiments. 79 The Royal Exchange80 is a capacious building, but has been robbed of a deal of its elegance by the hand of time.