Karl Philipp Moritz I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me. – Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz The short English miles are delightful for walking. You are always pleased to find, every now and then, in how short a time you have walked a mile, though, no doubt, a mile is everywhere a mile, I walk but a moderate pace, and can accomplish four English miles in an hour. – Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him. – Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings. – Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression. – Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul’s in London. – Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are. – Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear. – Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence. – Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz Whilst in Prussia poets only speak of the love of country as one of the dearest of all human affections, here there is no man who does not feel, and describe with rapture, how much he loves his country. – Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz My landlady, who is only a tailor’s widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis. – Karl Philipp Moritz
Karl Philipp Moritz In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, and yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic. – Karl Philipp Moritz
