He Too Ordered Some
Dinner, Which He Had No Sooner Ate, Than He Returned Immediately To
The Same Church.
We followed him, and he again mounted the pulpit,
where he drew from his pocket a written paper, or book of notes, and
delivered in all probability those very words which he had just
before composed in our presence at the coffee-house.
In these coffee-houses, however, there generally prevails a very
decorous stillness and silence. Everyone speaks softly to those
only who sit next him. The greater part read the newspapers, and no
one ever disturbs another. The room is commonly on the ground
floor, and you enter it immediately from the street; the seats are
divided by wooden wainscot partitions. Many letters and projects
are here written and planned, and many of those that you find in the
papers are dated from some of these coffee-houses. There is,
therefore, nothing incredible, nor very extraordinary, in a person's
composing a sermon here, excepting that one would imagine it might
have been done better at home, and certainly should not have thus
been put off to the last minute.
Another long walk that I have taken pretty often, is through Hanover
Square and Cavendish Square, to Bulstrode Street, near Paddington,
where the Danish ambassador lives, and where I have often visited
the Danish Charge d'Affaires, M. Schornborn. He is well known in
Germany, as having attempted to translate Pindar into German.
Besides this, and besides being known to be a man of genius, he is
known to be a great proficient in most of the branches of natural
philosophy.
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