Recollections of past lifeD. Appleton and Company, 1872 - 351 Seiten |
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Seite 197 - Alvanley's description of him, as " a conceited Muscovy duck," had an amusing personal reality about it, felt even by those who knew his high merits as a Judge and master of international law. His house curiously illustrated the habits of the man, in its utter destitution of all the appliances of luxury or comfort.- The furniture was never either changed or cleaned. Year after year I wrote prescriptions there with the same solitary pen — the single one, I believe, in his possession, and rarely...
Seite 270 - Looking especially at home, we find that the augmented speed and hurry of locomotion (and I can affirm that people walk faster in the London streets than they did when I first knew these great thoroughfares) is carried into every other department of life ; politics, commerce, literature, science, professional and social existence. The loiterers in life are fewer, and the charm of a tranquil leisure is less appreciated and sought after.