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Excerpt from Critical Observations on the Buildings and Improvements of London
But this very inational fpirit' in England, which, once being put in aétion, exertsitfelf with fo much vigour and effect, finds however, at firfi, a terrible enemy in vulgar prejudice, which mull be overcome before it can fairly aé'c. In an arbitrary fiate, a prince, a. Minifier, may have his eyes opened to the errors of a former fyfiem, and ima mediately adopt anew one, without reflraint: but with the multitude it requires time; they feldom reafon, and it is to their feelings you mull apply. Habit fanélifies every thing, with them 5 and even that deformity to which they are accuflomed, becomes beauty in their eyes. Ar fine ar'lona'o? zgpm the érz'a'ge, was formerly a proverbial laying in the city and many a ferious fen: fible tradefman-ufed to believe that heap of enormities to be one of the (even wonders of the world, and next to Solomon? Temple the finefi thing that ever art produced.
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