This Probably Arises From Their Making Use Of
Only One Kind Of Writing, In Which The Letters Are All So Exact That
You Would Take It For Print.
In general, in speaking, reading, in their expressions, and in
writing, they seem, in England, to have more decided rules than we
have.
The lowest man expresses himself in proper phrases, and he
who publishes a book, at least writes correctly, though the matter
be ever so ordinary. In point of style, when they write, they seem
to be all of the same country, profession, rank, and station.
The printed English sermons are beyond all question the best in the
world; yet I have sometimes heard sad, miserable stuff from their
pulpits. I have been in some churches where the sermons seem to
have been transcribed or compiled from essays and pamphlets; and the
motley composition, after all, very badly put together. It is said
that there are a few in London, by whom some of the English clergy
are supposed to get their sermons made for money.
CHAPTER XIV.
London, 18th July.
I write to you now for the last time from London; and, what is still
more, from St. Catherine's, one of the most execrable holes in all
this great city, where I am obliged to stay, because the great ships
arrive in the Thames here, and go from hence, and we shall sail as
soon as the wind changes. This it has just now done, yet still it
seems we shall not sail till to-morrow.
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