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... elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it is as carefully excluded as if it were--that other word which is the basis of all really bad language in this country. But th...

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...e extremely to be called—“Scientists.” They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and ... ...ssor Redwood was Professor of Physiology in the Bond Street College of the London University, and he had been grossly libelled by the anti-vivisection... ...ectionists time after time. And they had led lives of academic distinction from their very earliest youth. They were of course quite undistinguished l... ...s not under- stand it either. But really you know many of these scientific people understand the meaning of their own papers quite well: it is simply ... ... it, because as a general rule I do not think it is at all interesting for people to tell each other about their dreams. By a singular coincidence Red... ...his flat with farm hunting up and down the lines that run southward out of London, and his peering spectacles, his simple baldness, and his lacerated ... ...walks and keep out of the towns”— for by that time they were forbidden all boroughs and urban districts, “Doing nothing’s just wicked. Can’t we find o... ... station. He recognised the place by the huge rat alarm-tower that crested Camden Hill, and the row of blossoming giant hemlocks that lined the road…....

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... IV. THE PANTOMIME OF LIFE V. SOME PARTICULARS CONCERNING A LION VI.MR. ROBERT BOLTON: THE ?GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS? VII. FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD AGED TWO YEARS AND TWO MONTHS...

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...BERT BOLTON: THE ‘GENTLEMAN CONNECTED WITH THE PRESS’ VII. FAMILIAR EPISTLE FROM A PARENT TO A CHILD AGED TWO YEARS AND TWO MONTHS PUBLIC LIFE OF MR.... ...ably pleasant town situated in a charming hollow by the side of a river, from which river, Mudfog derives an agree able scent of pitch, tar, coal... ...s of Mudfog are unanimous in asserting that there exists not a finer race of people on the face of the earth; here we have an indisputable and vera c... ...e morn ing they shall be permitted to open, how soon it shall be lawful for people to eat their dinner on church days, and other great political ques... ...bout the middle of the month of October, Mr. Tulrumble and family went up to London; the middle of Oc tober being, as Mrs. Tulrumble informed her acq... ...las Tulrumble being a very important man, they elected him, and wrote off to London by the very next post to acquaint Nicholas Tulrumble with his new ... ...ance, trains would start every morning at eight, nine, and ten o’clock, from Camden Town, Islington, Camberwell, Hackney, and various other places in ... ... After reminding the section that every member of Parlia ment for a town or borough was supposed to possess a clear freehold estate of three hundred ...

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...ing committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more inconsiderable than, in those last solemn days, it did to him. He had burnt much; found much unworthy; looking steadfastly into ...

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...o friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in... ...d by his position as a Churchman, had been led, in editing a Work not free from ecclesiastical heresies, and especially in writing a Life very full of... ...e *John Sterling’s Essays and Tales, with Life by Archdeacon Hare. Parker; London, 1848. 5 Thomas Carlyle Church. But he was a man, and had relation ... ...it.—Simple peasant laborers, ploughers, house- servants, occasional fisher-people too; and the sight of ships, and crops, and Nature’s doings where Ar... ...ch controversy Colonel Robert, after repeated applications, journeyings to London, attendances upon committees, and such like, finds himself worsted, ... ...dism when they have any character;—for the rest, an innocent good- humored people, who all drink home-brewed beer, and have brown loaves of the most e... ...g. Pistol. Why, then, rejoice therefor.” A stupid commonplace English Borough has lost its Mem- ber suddenly, by apoplexy or otherwise; resolves,... ...eys; electors of all creeds and complexions to be canvassed: a poor stupid Borough thrown all into red or white heat; into blazing paroxysms of activi... ...t. To his friends he left messages, memo- rials of books: I have a Gough’s Camden, and other relics, which came to me in that way, and are among my sa...

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...Excerpt: I do not find it easy to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of having finished it, to refer to it with the composure which this formal heading would seem to require. My interest in it, is so recent and strong; and my mind is so divided between p...

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...PREFACE TO 1850 EDITION I DO NOT FIND IT EASY to get sufficiently far away from this Book, in the first sensations of hav- ing finished it, to refer ... ... pleasure in the achievement of a long design, regret in the separation from many companions that I am in danger of wearying the reader whom I l... ...have fallen on these leaves of David Copperfield, and made me happy. London, October, 1850. PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION I REMARKED IN... ... in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-going people were short of money about that time, or were short of faith and pref... ... t cry! said Miss Betsey. You were not equally matched, child if any two people can be equally matched and so I asked the question. You were an orph... ...knee, which would have lasted us out hand- somely, if we had been going to London by the same conveyance. We ate a good deal, and slept a good deal. P... ...school; that he had been, a good many years ago, a small hop-dealer in the Borough, and had taken to the schooling business after being bankrupt in ho... ...e than out, and he lived in a little street near the Veterinary College at Camden Town, which was principally tenanted, as one of our clerks who lived... ...e, on remunera- tive terms, and address, post-paid, to W. M., Post Office, Camden Town. This idea of Mrs. Micawber s, my dear Copperfield, said Mr...

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...remnant of the earliest patents; there any unwel- come sensations, arising from domestic affairs changed natu- rally into pity and contempt as he turn... ...born November 20, 1791.” Precisely such had the paragraph originally stood from the printer’s hands; but Sir Walter had improved it by adding, for the... ... Dugdale, serving the 4 Persuasion office of high sheriff, representing a borough in three succes- sive parliaments, exertions of loyalty, and dignit... ... mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister; her ... ...fforded, and thirteen springs shewn their blossoms, as she travelled up to London with her father, for a few weeks’ annual enjoyment of the great worl... ...he modest drawing-back of youth; and, in one of their spring excursions to London, when Elizabeth was in her first bloom, Mr Elliot had been forced in... ... Sir W alter Elliot will be very far from lessened in the eyes of sensible people, by acting like a man of principle. What will he be doing, in fact, ... ...their former hopes and fears, and spoke her satisfac- tion in the house in Camden Place, which had been taken, and her regret that Mrs Clay should sti... ...dship of the Harvilles and Captain Benwick, than her own father’s house in Camden Place, or her own sister’s intimacy with Mrs Clay. She was actually ...

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...a reer of the immortal Pickwick would appear to be in volved, is deri ved from the perusal of the foll ow ing ent ry in th e Transactions of the P... ...cience, f rom the production to which they have just adverted—no less than from the unwearied researches of Samuel Pickwick, Esq., G.C.M.P.C., in Ho... ...n ery or associations may give rise, to the Pickwick Club, sta tioned in London. ‘That this Association cordially recognises the principle of every ... ...n observer of human na ture, Sir,’ said Mr. Pickwick. ‘ Ah, so am I. Most people are when they’ve little to do and less to get. Poet, Sir?’ ‘My frien... ...ved one of the covers. ‘Soles, Sir.’ ‘Soles—ah!—capital fish—all come from London stage coach proprietors get up political dinners—carriage of soles—... ...’ said the stranger, ‘fun presently—nobs not come yet—queer place—dockyard people of upper rank don’t know dockyard people of lower rank—dockyard peop... ...at they ought to have known before, that Muggleton is an ancient and loyal borough, mingling a zealous advocacy of Christian principles with a devoted... ...my sturdiness, amidst the mod ern innovations which surround them. In the Borough especially, there still remain some half dozen old inns, which hav... ...one, my dear sir, well done.” ‘“He lies concealed in a wretched lodging in Camden Town,” said Heyling. “Perhaps it is as well we did lose sight of hi...

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... . . . . . 67 ii A CRISTMAS CAROL He had been Tim’s blood horse all the way from church, and had come home rampant. PREFACE. I HAVE endeavoured in t... ...HOST 3 The mention of Marley’s funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly und... ...door: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, ... ...use. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands... ...ys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman’s buff. MARLEY... ...ge had as little of what is called fancy about him as any man in the City of London, even including — which is a bold word — the corporation, aldermen... ...nimal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn’t made a show of, and wasn... ...a minute, like sticks of sealing wax. “Why, it’s impossible to carry that to Camden Town,” said Scrooge. “You must have a cab.” The chuckle with which... ... good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration...

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...rgain. The mention of Marley’s funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly und... ...oor: Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley, ... ...sping, scraping, clutch ing, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self ... ...use. It was cold, bleak, biting weather: foggy withal: and he could hear the people in the court outside, go wheezing up and down, beating their hands... ...ys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman’s buff. Scrooge... ...ge had as little of what is called fancy about him as any man in the city of London, even including — which is a bold word — the corporation, aldermen... ...nimal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn’t made a show of, and wasn... ...a minute, like sticks of sealing wax. ‘Why, it’s impossible to carry that to Camden Town,’ said Scrooge. ‘You must have a cab.’ The chuckle with which... ... good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration...

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...man only and Forster, who had that day forcibly sent away all her servants from her to Abington market, about three miles distant from this place; the... ...n her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay, to another where the bed’s head of th... ...pointment; and Sir Richard V arney the other, dying about the same time in London, cried miserably, and blasphemed God, and said to a person of note (... ...t to reputation as a traveller. A country fellow might as well return from London without looking in the face of majesty. The men of Cumnor were proud... ...ts founded on the credit of his house, and the construction which the good people of Cumnor might put upon such an unsocial humour. “By my faith, sir,... ...t these thirty years in the town of Cumnor, and being at this instant head-borough, wilt thou suffer this guest of guests, this man of men, this six-h... ...be- ware of taking to cold steel; but send for me, Giles Gosling, the head-borough, and I may be able to make something out of T ony yet, for as proud... ...en head of his, gave him the power of enjoying other 135 Sir Walter Scott people’s distresses, as she gave them the pleasure of laughing at his uglin... ...t an invisible smith replacing lost horse-shoes there.”—Gough’s edition of Camden’s Britannia, vol.i., p. 221. The popular belief still retains memory...

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...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...ow yourself to be worried by what is so very inconsid- erately told you by people who ought to know better. Really I’m surprised at them.’ ‘I hope I k... ...ess. It was a rude shock to his sense of property in his child, that these people— the mere dust of the earth, as he thought them -should be necessary... ... take a voyage to Chaney, Mrs Richards, but I mayn’t know how to leave the London Docks.’ Richards assented to the proposition. ‘This house ain’t so e... ...UGH THE OFFICES of Dombey and Son were within the liberties of the City of London, and within hearing of Bow Bells, when their clashing voices were no... ...erence) on pocket handkerchiefs, condenses, with some show of reason, into Camden Town. Hither the two nurses bent their steps, accompanied by their c... ...in his eye, and slight impediment in his speech—man who sat for somebody’s borough. We used to call him in my par- liamentary time W. P . Adams, in co...

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...Introduction: Queen Elizabeth herself, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of its great men in the way of social dignity, are here brought home to us by Paul Hentzner and Sir Robert Naunton....

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...IN ENGLAND AND FRAGMENTA REGALIA INTRODUCTION QUEEN ELIZABETH HERSELF, and London as it was in her time, with sketches of Elizabethan England, and of ... ...ted, together with Sir Robert Naunton’s “Fragmenta Regalia,” in the volume from which they are here reprinted, with notes by the translator and the ed... ...beth sent thither as Ambassa- dor, and was despatched to Elizabeth’s court from Scotland as a trusty messenger. In 1596-7 he was in France, and cor- r... ...entertained; as one generally is in this country. W e took post-horses for London: it is surprising how swiftly they run; their bridles are very light... ...its antiquity; though others think it to have been named Elbegate. Several people believe that there were formerly two gates (besides that to the brid... ... thy kingdom shall be translated to another, whose manner and language the people under thee knoweth not. Nor shall thy sin be done away till after lo... ...lic and private buildings, upon establishing this form of government. Vide Camden’s “Britannia,” Middlesex. It is worthy of observation, that every ye... ...ld under their colours forty thousand foot and twenty thousand horse. Vide Camden’s “Britannia,” Middlesex. The best oysters are sold here in great qu... .... V aux, Baron V aux. Windsor, Baron Windsor. W entworth, Baron Wentworth. Borough, Baron Borough, reduced to want. Baron Mordaunt. Baron Eure. Baron ...

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...a bet for her brother Lord Levellier, the colonel of cavalry, who left an arm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighborhood supposed, because he foretold the weather and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military...

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...rm in Egypt, and changed his way of life to become a wizard, as the common people about his neighbourhood supposed, be- cause he foretold the weather ... ...whole town was very soon agog about the couple, until at the end of a year people began to talk of them separately, she going her way, and he his. She... ...rince Chancellor and a pair of Field Marshals, and some ladies of the day, from the metropolis to Richmond Hill in fifty or sixty odd minutes, having ... ...ervice of the first insurgent State of Span- ish America, to save his ship from being taken over to the enemy,—he blew her up, fifteen miles from land... ...herit the Lincolnshire property, and at the period of the great scandal in London he was palsied, and waited on by his grandson and heir Ralph Thorkil... ...the other hand, it was never denied that Curtis and John Wiltshire were in London to- gether at the time of Countess Fanny’s flight: and Curtis Fakenh... ...eward course, after a walk of two days out of Dover. He descended London’s borough, having exactly twopence halfpenny for refreshment; following a ter... ...d a church clock shin- ing to the sun. She was sure of the direction: ‘Out Camden way, where the murder was.’ They walked at a brisk pace, conversing ...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large,... ...wo white moles with hairs on them?” 17 George Eliot “Oh, I dare say! when people of a certain sort looked at him,” said Dorothea, walking away a litt... ...r sister; spoke of a house in town, and asked whether Miss Brooke disliked London. A way from her sister, Celia talked quite easily, and Sir James sai... ...people denied aspirates, gained wealth, and fastidious gentlemen stood for boroughs; some were caught in political currents, some in ecclesiastical, a... ... resist the rush of everything that is a little better than common towards London. Any valid professional aims may often find a freer, if not a richer... ... Promise was a pretty maid, But being poor she died unwed.” THE REV. CAMDEN FAREBROTHER, whom Lydgate went to see the next evening, lived in an ... ... said the Vicar, “she objects to metaphysics.” “I object to what is wrong, Camden. I say, keep hold of a few plain truths, and make everything square ...

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...le girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve....

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...er, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide eyed and helpless looking as two fawns, but with hu... ...til domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theres... ...of society and of domestic life was, that opinions were not acted on. Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large,... ...Had Locke those two white moles with hairs on them?” “Oh, I dare say! when people of a certain sort looked at him,” said Dorothea, walking away a litt... ...e in town, and asked whether Miss Brooke 16 Book I — Miss Brooke disliked London. Away from her sister, Celia talked quite easily, and Sir James said... ...people denied aspirates, gained wealth, and fastidious gentlemen stood for boroughs; some were caught in political currents, some in ecclesiastical, a... ... resist the rush of everything that is a little better than common towards London. Any valid professional aims may often find a freer, if not a richer ... ... said Promise was a pretty maid, But being poor she died unwed.” T he Rev. Camden Farebrother, whom Lydgate went to see the next evening, lived in an ... ...aid the Vicar, “she objects to meta physics.” “I object to what is wrong, Camden. I say, keep hold of a few plain truths, and make everything square ...

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... of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely suff... ...and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is ly- ing, is dragged from beneath her. What can he do? To whom is he to apply for relief? To pri... ...tal supply of water, and it was first on the spot. Bang went the pumps—the people cheered—the beadle perspired pro- fusely; but it was unfortunately d... ...ont row of the gallery could not be pro- cured for love or money; and some people even went so far as to assert, that the three Miss Browns, who had a... ...g for booksellers. They had removed from some country place and settled in London; partly because it afforded better chances of employment for the boy... ...S CHAPTER I—THE STREETS—MORNING THE APPEARANCE PRESENTED by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer’s morning, is most striking even... ...full hour ago in the suburbs: for the early clerk population of Somers and Camden towns, Islington, and Pentonville, are fast pouring into the city, o... ...by Boz regularly born of sweeps, in the rural districts of Somers Town and Camden Town—that the eldest son succeeded to the father’s business, that th... ...Mr. Snobee,” said Mr. Wilson, “is a fit and proper person to represent the borough in Parliament.” “Prove it,” says I. “He is a friend to Reform,” say...

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... of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future....

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...poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely suff... ...and hunger, and the very bed on which his sick wife is ly- ing, is dragged from beneath her. What can he do? To whom is he to apply for relief? To pri... ...tal supply of water, and it was first on the spot. Bang went the pumps—the people cheered—the beadle perspired pro- fusely; but it was unfortunately d... ...ont row of the gallery could not be pro- cured for love or money; and some people even went so far as to assert, that the three Miss Browns, who had a... ...g for booksellers. They had removed from some country place and settled in London; partly because it afforded better chances of employment for the boy... ...S CHAPTER I—THE STREETS—MORNING THE APPEARANCE PRESENTED by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer’s morning, is most striking even... ...full hour ago in the suburbs: for the early clerk population of Somers and Camden towns, Islington, and Pentonville, are fast pouring into the city, o... ...by Boz regularly born of sweeps, in the rural districts of Somers Town and Camden Town—that the eldest son succeeded to the father’s business, that th... ...Mr. Snobee,” said Mr. Wilson, “is a fit and proper person to represent the borough in Parliament.” “Prove it,” says I. “He is a friend to Reform,” say...

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...of growing enlightenment and happy compan- ionship, and an innocent refuge from the cares and perturbations of life. Princeton, June 28, 1917. INTRODU... ...nothing that he could use. ‘I have sometimes been obliged to run half over London, in order to fix a date correctly.’ He agonized over his work with t... ...ect and setting are so closely allied that each borrows charm and emphasis from the other. Let the devoted reader of Boswell ask himself what glamor w... ...ne must reckon in considering any important matter of his day. His love of London is but a part of his hunger for men. ‘The happiness of London is not... ..., such as ‘love’ and ‘hate,’ and vast is the number, range, and variety of people who at one time or another had been in some degree personally relate... ...godchild Jane Langton. ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I love the acquain- tance of young people, . . . young men have more virtue than old men; they have more gen- ... ...e of the most eminent brewers in England, and Member of Parliament for the borough of Southwark. Foreigners are not a little amazed when they hear of ... ...dit et erubuit lympha pudica deum,” and I told you of another fine line in Camden’s Remains, an eulogy upon one of our Kings, who was succeeded by his... ...is diverting simplicity, com- plained one day, in a mixed company, of Lord Camden. ‘I met him (said he,) at Lord Clare’s house in the country, and he ...