Whether it had arisen out of contempt for all the externals of worship, or whether it were owing rather to a wild fear of any semblance of fanaticism or of hypocrisy, this rude and slovenly conduct had come, he said, to a great height, and brought great scandal upon our worship.' It was tranquil enough, and suggestive of pensive meditation, shaded perhaps by rugged elms or melancholy yews but odysseus and telemachus the grass was probably rank and untended, and the ground a confused medley of shapeless heaps.Conscientious Church people in towns would generally have acknowledged that it was a duty, wherever there was no real impediment.A hundred years earlier, odysseus and telemachus Ralph Thoresby, travelling in Yorkshire, had expressed his amazement that 'on the Lord's Day we rode from church to church and found four towns without sermon or prayers.' The two anniversaries of January 30 and November 5 gave rise especially the former to a whole literature of special sermons, the great majority of which should never have been preached, or at least never published.' odysseus and telemachus How much they had dwindled away in London becomes evident from a comparison between the list of services enumerated in the 'Pietas Londinensis,' published in 1714, and a book entitled 'London Parishes an Account of the Churches, Vicars, Vestries,' &c.' Towards the beginning of the century, this old custom seems to have been tolerably general.While, for example, the transition from licence to order was in progress, a certain rector had sown odysseus and telemachus an unoccupied strip of the burial ground with turnips.There was many a clerical fop, we are told in a later paper of the 'Spectator,' who would wear it when he came up to London, that he might be mistaken for a dignitary of the Church, and be called 'doctor' by his landlady and by the waiter at Child's Coffee House., special odysseus and telemachus commemoration services were, in 1714, still kept in memory of the patron saints from whom they had been named.That every man might keep his own possessions, Our fathers used, in reverent processions, With zealous prayer, and with praiseful cheere, To walk their parish limits once a year.Paterson's account of the London churches shows that, in 1714, a large proportion of odysseus and telemachus them were open morning and evening for common prayer.