1. “You see in the streets of London, great add little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as clergy wear.”
2. “Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.”
3. “The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.”
4. “I am very sorry to say that I rejoiced when I once more perceived the towers of Windsor behind me.”
5. “I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly, I have seen it only by moonlight.”
6. “In the streets through which we passed, I must own the houses in general struck me as if they were dark and gloomy, yet at the same time they also struck me as prodigiously great and majestic.”
7. “These funerals always appear to be more indecent in a populous city, from the total indifference of the beholders and the perfect unconcern with which they are beheld.”
8. “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.”
9. “On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminister Abbey.”
10. “It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any person are about dress, the more effeminate they are.”
