The New England magazine . its features, unlike foreign capitals, it possesses more than all othercities of the United States, the advantage of highly educated and refinedsociety. I speak here of what is constant and resident; as Washington,during the session of Congress, and Boston, during one or two of the hotmonths, become in turn the focus of the foreign and floating society of thecountry. Perhaps the climate of Philadelphia may have had its effect inmaking it the home of those accustomed to the equable temperatures ofthe continent; for Boston, nine months of the year, is uninhabitable fro
The New England magazine . its features, unlike foreign capitals, it possesses more than all othercities of the United States, the advantage of highly educated and refinedsociety. I speak here of what is constant and resident; as Washington,during the session of Congress, and Boston, during one or two of the hotmonths, become in turn the focus of the foreign and floating society of thecountry. Perhaps the climate of Philadelphia may have had its effect inmaking it the home of those accustomed to the equable temperatures ofthe continent; for Boston, nine months of the year, is uninhabitable fromits acrid winds and clammy cold; and Washington, on the other hand, isunhealthy during a considerable part of the summer. New York, thoughthe metropolis of the country, is more a place of transit than of residence,to those not engaged in its business or commerce — a result partly of theunhealthfulness of its water and the effluvia of its streets, but partly, too,of the unsettled and shifting character of its society. 3*. VIEW OF THE UNITED STATES BANK,PHILADELPHIA THIS is one of those chaste and beautiful buildings which has giventhe public architecture of Philadelphia a superiority over that of everyother city of our country. It needs but that its fair marble should be weatherfretted and stained^ to express perfectly to the eye the model of one of themost graceful temples of antiquity. The severe simplicity of taste whichbreathes through this Greek model, however, is not adapted to privatebuildings; and in a certain kind of simplicity, or rather want of ornament,lies the fault found by every eye in the domestic architecture of this chess-board regularity of the streets, so embarrassing to a stranger,as well as tiresome to the gaze, requires a more varied, if not a more ornatestyle. The hundreds of houses that resemble each other in every distin-guishable particular occasion a bewilderment and fatigue to the unaccus-tomed eye, which a citizen of Philadelphia can sca
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