Gleanings From Piccadilly to Pera
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There is no grace, no meaning, no use in them. We continue to dress our soldiers and sailors worse, and less hand- somely, than all other powers (the Turks, perhaps, excepted) ; and so it will be while our present system goes on, and the present taste reigns.
Formerly we appeared superior in this to other nations ; but the march of these last fifty years has changed it all against us : we are far behind in many things essential to a great country in this age.
Happily our men fight well under an...y disadvantage when the look of the thing is not thought of. I see our papers are beginning to make a stir about it ; but why are the taste and intelligence of our Horse Guards and Admiralty so far behind the everyday world ? " and echo answers why ? " The Turks have a very good and attentive police on foot, with corps de garde in all the chief streets, where sentinels two and two stand together on a little PERA GATES SHUT. 297 board platform. Besides a patrole going the rounds at night, watchmen keep wide awake, and, as they walk the streets, strike their iron-shod staves on the stones : this peculiar ringing sound is heard a long way off; now and then they call out, but what they say I know not.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
There is no grace, no meaning, no use in them. We continue to dress our soldiers and sailors worse, and less hand- somely, than all other powers (the Turks, perhaps, excepted) ; and so it will be while our present system goes on, and the present taste reigns.
Formerly we appeared superior in this to other nations ; but the march of these last fifty years has changed it all against us : we are far behind in many things essential to a great country in this age.
Happily our men fight well under an...y disadvantage when the look of the thing is not thought of. I see our papers are beginning to make a stir about it ; but why are the taste and intelligence of our Horse Guards and Admiralty so far behind the everyday world ? " and echo answers why ? " The Turks have a very good and attentive police on foot, with corps de garde in all the chief streets, where sentinels two and two stand together on a little PERA GATES SHUT. 297 board platform. Besides a patrole going the rounds at night, watchmen keep wide awake, and, as they walk the streets, strike their iron-shod staves on the stones : this peculiar ringing sound is heard a long way off; now and then they call out, but what they say I know not.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by John Oldmixon to read onlineMoreLess
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