... in two or three hours’ ride the traveller might exchange a bleak treeless region, intersected by lines of cold grey stone, for one where his road wou... ...he huge conical masses of hill, like giant mounds intended to fortify this region of corn and grass against the keen and hun- gry winds of the north; ... ...el. Besides, he had that mental combination which is at once humble in the region of mystery and keen in the region of knowledge: it was the depth of ... ...ge deadness to the Word, as different as can be from the great towns, like Leeds, where I once went to visit a holy woman who preaches there. It’s won... ...soul is like one who has been deposited sleeping among the ruins of a vast city, and wakes up in dreary amazement, not knowing whether it is the growi... ..., though, it may be, not for a long while; for the brethren and sisters at Leeds are desirous to have me for a short space among them, when I have a d... ...ith a bewildered air. “Gone along wi’ her?” she said. “Eh, Dinah’s gone to Leeds, a big town ye may ha’ heared on, where there’s a many o’ the Lord’s ...

...ut on Sambo’s arm, as happy and as handsome a girl as any in the whole big city of London. Both he and coachman agreed on this point, and so did her f... ...est of all Dr. Swishtail’s young gentlemen. His parent was a grocer in the city: and it was bruited abroad that he was admitted into Dr. Swishtail’s a... ... We call him Figs because his father is a Grocer—Figs & Rudge, Thames St., City—I think as he fought for me you ought to buy your Tea & Sugar at his f... ...eyes passed between the other three ladies. The obedient bell in the lower regions began ringing the an- nouncement of the meal. The tolling over, the... ...the strange event, and Firkin, not less moved, dived down into the kitchen regions, and talked of it with all the male and female company there. And s... ...n, save of one only, a little square piano, which came down from the upper regions of the house (the state grand piano having been disposed of previou... ...ame in her grand chariot with the flaming hammer-cloth emblazoned with the Leeds arms. Jos was reported to be immensely rich. Old Osborne had no objec...

...elt the satisfaction of the prophet who saw fire and brimstone consume the city which would not mend its way to his warning. Poor Philip was practical... ...reater glory of God; and when one of the liv- ings on the outskirts of the city fell vacant, with a stipend of six hundred a year, the Chapter of- fer... ...’s father lived in Tercanbury , and there had been much indignation in the city , the local paper had referred to the matter; but Mr. Walters was only... ...f had ob- scurely felt. His mind was concrete and moved with difficulty in regions of the abstract; but, even when he could not follow the reasoning, ... ... to the parental expostu- lations that his father, a doctor in practice at Leeds, had not the heart to be seriously angry with him. “I’m an awful fool...

...ression in my face strange to him, he added, “Ah, sir, you dwell ers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter.” Then he rose and sai... ...e has been concealed. “That treasure has been hidden,” he went on, “in the region through which you came last night, there can be but little doubt. ... ...an, the Saxon, and the Turk. Why, there is hardly a foot of soil in all this region that has not been enriched by the blood of men, patriots or invade... ... like, but not for a nice young lady like you. Them feet folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin’cured herrin’s and drinkin’ tea an’ lookin’ ou... ...e hill, and to hear far away the muffled roar that marks the life of a great city. Each in his own way was solemn and overcome. Arthur was silent, and... ...re surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical scheme, let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable London in the south west an...

...s out of the question. “My dear Jones, you must excuse me. Any news in the city to-day? Sugars have fallen; how are teas?” Of course Jones thinks that... ...t found that its pride was carried too far. Boston is not in itself a fine city, but it is a very pleas- ant city. They say that the harbor is very gr... ...cause of the strong feeling for rebellion which was known to exist in that city. President Lincoln com- plied with this request, thinking it well to a... ... Willard down the mountain pass called the Notch. Let the visitor of these regions be as late in the year as he can, taking care that he is not so lat... ...those populations which we count by millions, are against him. Up in those regions which are watered by the great lakes—Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lak... ... to be expended. But nevertheless to the colonies—that is, to the enormous regions of British North America—such a railroad would be invaluable. Under... ... thickly growing population which belongs to such places as Manchester and Leeds. That it should under its present system have been made in any degree...

...ord with its polite and leisurely dons, or to the staunch little cathedral city of Lichfield, wel- coming back its famous son to dinner and tea, or to... ...or his baptism is re- corded, in the register of St. Mary’s parish in that city, to have been performed on the day of his birth. His father is there s... ...rs. And now (I had almost said poor) Samuel Johnson returned to his native city, destitute, and not knowing how he should gain even a decent livelihoo... ...uisitions had been made by fits and starts, by violent irruptions into the regions of knowledge; and it could not be expected that his impatience woul... ...hat want which accident and sickness produces, is to be supported in every region of humanity, though there were neither friends nor fathers in the wo... ...he other strange narratives with which your long residence in this unknown region has supplied you. ‘As you have now been long away, I suppose your cu... ...Warren, Mr. Courtenay, Dr. Hinchcliffe Bishop of Peterborough, the Duke of Leeds, Dr. Dou- glas Bishop of Salisbury, and the writer of this account. N... ...ng been in Scotland recruiting, he obligingly asked me to accompany him to Leeds, then the head- quarters of his corps; from thence to London for a sh... ...aracteristical warm terms, in a let- ter dated the 30th of September, from Leeds. On Monday, October 4, I called at his house before he was up. He sen...

...real and the money price of labour. In 1740, a year of extraordinary scar- city, many people were willing to work for bare subsistence. In the succeed... ...e same kind, is to be found in the capital of a very rich one. There is no city in Europe, I believe, in which house-rent is dearer than in London, an... ...f lectures; a num- ber which will not appear extraordinary from so great a city to so famous a teacher, who taught, too, what was at that time the mos... ... up natu- rally, and, as it were, of their own accord, the manufactures of Leeds, Halifax, Sheffield, Birmingham, and Wolverhampton. Such manufactures... ...tries which lie round the Mediterranean sea, to that with the more distant regions of America and the West Indies; from which the returns are necessar...

... surprised to find what an exceedingly shallow rill it was. As in droughty regions baptism by immer- sion could only be performed symbolically, Mr. Ca... ...not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting grounds for the poetic imagination.” “W ell, t... ...ear as well as gratitude; and power, when once it has got into that subtle region, propagates itself, spreading out of all proportion to its external ... ...er the brief narrow experience of her girlhood she was beholding Rome, the city of visible his- tory, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems movin... ...cal contrast: the gigantic broken revelations of that Impe- rial and Papal city thrust abruptly on the notions of a girl who had been brought up in En... ...ording to the rubric, did not help to jus- tify the glories of the Eternal City, or to give her the hope that if she knew more about them the world wo... ... if every field on his farms has a rotten gate: a man very open-hearted to Leeds and Manchester, no doubt; he would give any number of representatives...