I Have Also, During This Period, Become Acquainted With Baron
Grothaus, The Famous Walker, To Whom I Had Also A Letter Of
Recommendation From Baron Groote Of Hambro'.
He lives in
Chesterfield House, not far from General Paoli, to whom he has
promised to introduce me, if I have time to call on him again.
I have suffered much this week from the violent cough I brought with
me from the hole in Derbyshire, so that I could not for some days
stir; during which time Messrs. Schonborn and Leonhardi have visited
me very attentively, and contributed much to my amendment.
I have been obliged to relate as much about my journey out of London
here as I probably shall in Germany of all England in general. To
most people to whom I give an account of my journey, what I have
seen is quite new. I must, however, here insert a few remarks on
the elocution, or manner of speaking, of this country, which I had
forgot before to write to you.
English eloquence appears to me not to be nearly so capable of so
much variety and diffusion as ours is. Add to this, in their
Parliamentary speeches, in sermons in the pulpit, in the dialogues
on the stage; nay, even in common conversation, their periods at the
end of a sentence are always accompanied by a certain singular
uniform fall of the voice, which, notwithstanding its monotony has
in it something so peculiar, and so difficult, that I defy any
foreigner ever completely to acquire it.
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