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Excerpt from A Satirical View of London: Comprising Free Strictures on the Manners and Amusements of the Inhabitants of the English Metropolis, Observations on Literature and the Fine Arts, and Amusing Anecdotes of Public Characters
A general and cursory survey of the streets of London might induce the stranger to imagine that he had arrived in a perfect paradise. The beauty of elegant women moving with graceful ease in the public streets, the air of satisfaction with which numbers of tradesmen hasten along, eager for the completion ofsome important transaction, and the complacent smile lot: groups of. Young gentlemen sauntering. Arm in arm, might mislead the visitor 1� Into an opinion that London was the spot which Happiness had chosen fbr a perpetual residence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
