A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England: In the Summer of 1835J. Murray, 1836 - 434 páginas |
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Página 271 - 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 75 - 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 74 - 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 73 - 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 299 - The first trial was made with sixteen, upon which the bridge gave way ; that is to say, as the sixteen carriages advanced upon the platform, the latter, yielding at first to their weight, became elevated in the middle, so as by degrees to form an apex, which was no sooner surmounted by half the number, than the couplings broke asunder, and eight carriages rolled one way, and eight another, — the one set onwards on their way, and the other back again. In consequence of this misadventure, the...
Página 270 - 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 76 - ... no appellative but the Christian name of the person spoken to. Thus he proceeded : " Daniel and Phoebe ; this way, Daniel; take off" your gloves, Daniel. William and Anne ; no, Anne ; here, Anne ; t'other side, William. John and Mary ; here, John ; oh, John • gently, John." And then addressing them all together : " Now all of you give your hats to some person to hold.
Página 74 - 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...
Página 421 - At the end of each they sweated and panted, as if they had undergone a severe burst with foxhounds : there they stood, planted as it were, reeling and shaking their tails till led away. We were generally on these occasions very soon out of sight ; for on changing the cattle, no other ceremony was requisite than merely to unship the eye of each trace from the hook, and fix the other instead : nay, so quick were our movements, that frequently, on whisking round a corner, a traveller was seen waiting...
Página 147 - As there is generally work .to be had, a sufficient number of these continually present themselves, who having remained a few days or a week, or as long as it suits them, receive their payment, pursue their march, and choose another occupation. These men, from the nature of their service, are called