Doings In London Or Day And Night Scenes Of The Frauds Frolics Manners And Depravities Of The Metropolis

Author : George Smeeton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780243250202
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Doings in London, Or Day and Night Scenes of the Frauds, Frolics, Manners, and Depravities of the Metropolis written by George Smeeton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Doings in London, or Day and Night Scenes of the Frauds, Frolics, Manners, and Depravities of the Metropolis: With Thirty-Three Engravings Mentor to alienate you from your intended project, but I must warn you of the doings in London, of the difficulties you will have to encounter. Be tenacious with whom you associate; form not hasty connections choose your friends among the wise, and your wife among the virtuous. Mentor thus gave him instruction, and so excited his wishes, that Peregrine regretted the necessity of sleep, and longed till the morning should commence his pleasures. It was agreed that they should breakfast the next morning at the Castle and Falcon, Aldersgate Street, it being the inn where Peregrine intended to reside: to. This appointment Peregrine was punctual; they conversed over the news of the day while at breakfast, and, when it was over, Peregrine proposed that they should instantly commence their ramble. But, said Mentor, before we begin our walks through London - this vast em porium of happiness and misery, splendour and wretchedness, the mart of all the world, the residence of the voluptuous and the frugal, the idle and the busy, the merchant and the man of learn ing, - it may be well to give you a short sketch of some of its in teresting particulars. Notwithstanding politicians and legislators have at various times expressed considerable alarm at the growth of the metropolis, it has still continued advancing, amidst all imw pediments and interruptions, to a most gigantic size. Conjecture even dares not fix its limits, for every succeeding year we see some waste ground in the suburbs reclaimed and covered with dwellings; some little village or hamlet in the suburbs united by a continuous street to the metropolis until what once, and that at no remote period, was London and its environs, is now one great compact city, likely to verify the prediction of James the First, that England will shortly be London, and London England. By the census of 1821, London, including the borough of South Wark, contained the vast number of houses, and 3437 other houses were then building; and, when we consider that every month brings a large addition, it probably could not be too much to estimate the metropolis as at present containing houses nor are its limits likely to st0p here, but to be extended considerably in succeeding ages. 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.