La Belle Assemblee Or Bells Court And Fashionable Magazine Volume 4

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
ISBN 13 : 9781230124827
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book La Belle Assemblée; Or, Bell's Court and Fashionable Magazine Volume 4 written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1811 edition. Excerpt: ... such an aversion lo see my fellow A'o. xxir. rot, iv.--tf. s. creatures struggling under sickness, madness, or captivity, that I neversaw the inside of an hospital, a receptacle for lunatics, or a prison, in my life. If I could restore health to the sick, reason to the deranged, or liberty to the captive; if I could even carry with me an alleviation oftheir distress; I would conquer my own feelings. But I sever can go to see misery as a sight. We crossed the Lerneout of Lancaster, Ob a handsome modern bridge; the quay below precnting a busy scene of warehouses and vessels; and proceeded about four miles on the greut north roud, when we turned to the left to Hesse Bank, where Ihe sauds begin, and which, we purposed to cross. The inn here accommodates a very small company of sea-bathers, whose only machine is the landlord's cart We stopped all night, and found the situation of the public room so pleasant that it might well compensate for a few inconveniences. From its windows are seen the peninsula of I-ancashire, running out into the sea; with Peel Castle at its extremity, and the town of Ulverstone farther in. On the north, the two river Keir and Kent, divided by a ledge of rocks, empty themselves into the sea; but they are too distant to be distinguished among the alternate masses of fund and water left by the receding tide. The Bombs here are so 8at-that the tide advances with rapid strides, and seldom runs off so as to leave them quite dry. It is said that the Milthrop sands, which are the outlet of the Keir, a little higher up, are sometimes covered as fast as a horse can gallop; and it is certain that a gentleman, crossing in a giyt found them 10 unsound, that he was obliged e B b put his horse on full speed. He and his wife, ...