They do not know when they are well off.

Mendicant priests do not prowl among them with baskets begging for the church and eating up their substance.

One hardly ever sees a minister of the gospel going around there in his bare feet, with a basket, begging for subsistence.

In that country the preachers are not like our mendicant orders of friars--they have two or three suits of clothing, and they wash sometimes.

In that land are mountains far higher than the Alban mountains; the vast Roman Campagna, a hundred miles long and full forty broad, is really small compared to the United States of America; the Tiber, that celebrated river of ours, which stretches its mighty course almost two hundred miles, and which a lad can scarcely throw a stone across at Rome, is not so long, nor yet so wide, as the American Mississippi--nor yet the Ohio, nor even the Hudson.