English history, of English law of sucession, religion, islamic world and the difference between the
cottage and the manor house.
"This afternoon, I was wondering how a man who wished to do right could act so unjustly und unwisely as Charles the first sometimes did. And I thought what a pity it was that, with his integrity and his concientiousness, he could see no farther than the prerogatives of the Crown. If he had but been able to look to a distance. Still, I like Charles, I respect him, I pity him, poor murdered king. Yers, his ennemies were the worst. They shed blood they had no right to shed. How dared they kill him..." (p;89).
"I see, he said, the mountain will never be brought to Mahomet, so all you can do is to aid Mahomet to go the mountain. I must beg of you to come here..."(p.146)
"The old gentleman was fond of money, and anxious to keep the family estate together. He did not like to diminish the property by division..." (p.159)
"I keep it and rear it on the Roman Catholic principle of expiating numerous sins, great or small, by one good work..." (p.171)
"I set out for the Continent. I shall take up my abode in a religious house near Lisle. A nunnery, you would call it. I shall devote myself for a time to the examination of the Roman Catholic dogmas and to a careful study of the workings of their system..." (p.269)
"I first got an idea of its calibre when I heard him preach in his own church at Morton. It began calm, it was calm to the end. Stern allusions to Calvinistic doctrines, election, predestination, reprobation, were frequent...(p.378)
"There is this difference between me and deistic philosophers. I believe, and I believe the Gospel. I am not a pagan, but a Chritian philosopher, a follower of the sect of Jesus. As his disciple I adopt his pure , his merciful, his benignant doctrines...(p.401)
"But perhaps, your accomodations, your cottage, your furniture, have disappointed your expectations ? My cottage is clean and weather-proof; my furniture sufficient...But you feel solitude ? The little house there behind you is dark and empty..."
"The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity, moderate seize and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood. Entering a portal, fastened only by a latch, I stood amidst a space of enclosed ground...The house presented two pointed gables in its front, the windows were latticed and narrow..." (p.454)