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London , like Gilbert's Strephon , is ' a living ganglion of irreconcilable antagonisms , ' and change is the law of its growth . At present it is busy with a a thousand problems , some of them momentous , but all needing decision ...
London , like Gilbert's Strephon , is ' a living ganglion of irreconcilable antagonisms , ' and change is the law of its growth . At present it is busy with a a thousand problems , some of them momentous , but all needing decision ...
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London has been variously called ' the flower of cities all , ' Regum Angliæ Camera ( as the old deeds have it ) , the emporium of the whole Earth , and great Council of representatives in the Trading World , ' as Addison said .
London has been variously called ' the flower of cities all , ' Regum Angliæ Camera ( as the old deeds have it ) , the emporium of the whole Earth , and great Council of representatives in the Trading World , ' as Addison said .
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If he has a well - stored mind , the London soil and air will prove more than fostering and kindly to those bodiless possessions , the company of his friends in books . He soon finds himself exploring the real London under escort of ...
If he has a well - stored mind , the London soil and air will prove more than fostering and kindly to those bodiless possessions , the company of his friends in books . He soon finds himself exploring the real London under escort of ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 244 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1925 |
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