A year's residence in the United States of America / [William Cobbett].
- William Cobbett
- Date:
- 1822
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A year's residence in the United States of America / [William Cobbett]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![tionate mother! I hastened back into the room. If I had looked a moment longer, I should have dropped. When I came to reflect, what a change! I looked down at my dress. What a change! What scenes [had gone through! How altered my state! I had dined the day before at a Secretary of State’s in company with Mr. Pitt, and had been waited upon by men in gaudy live- ries! I had had nobody to assist me in the world. No teachers of any sort. Nobody to shelter me from the consequence of bad, and no one to counsel me to good, behaviour. I felt proud. The distinctions of rank, birth, and wea!th, all became nothing in my eyes ; and from that moment (less than a month after my arrival in England) I resolved never to bend before them. 16. Same weather. Went to see my old Quaker- friends at Bustleton, and particularly my beloved friend James Paut, who is very ill. 17. Returned to Philadelphia. Little frost and a little snow. 18, 19, 20 & 21. Moderate frost. Fine clear sky. The Philadelphians are cleanly, a quality which they owe chiefly to the Quakers. But, after being long and recently familiar with the towns in Surrey and Hamp- shire, and especially with Guildford, Alton, and South- ampton, no other towns appear clean and neat, not even Bath or Salisbury, which last is much about upon a par, bury is deemed a very cleanly place. Blandford and Dorchester are clean; but, I have never yet seen any thing like the towns in Surrey and Hampshire. If a Frenchman, born and bred, could be taken up and car- ried blindfold to Guildford, I wonder what his sensations would be, when he came to have the use of his sight! Every thing near Guildford seems to have received an influence from the town. Hedges, gates, stiles, gar- dens, houses inside and out, and the dresses of the peo- ple. The market day at Guildford is a perfect show of may Mr. Birkbeck, who came from this very spot, think the people dirty in the er country! Dl] engage %](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33028680_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
