. The earth and its inhabitants ... Thomson, Casaubon, Goldsmith, Southey, Macaulay, Dickens, Thackeray, Paoli,Wilberforce, Handel, Kemble, Mrs. Siddons, and Garrick. Lastly, amongst thosewho have made the earth their study, are Stamford Baffles, Bcnncl, Chardin,Lyell, and Livingstone. Westminster Abbey has survived, notwithstanding the Reformation. It still is. LONDON. 185 in possession of its church, chapter-house, and cloister, has retained its ancientinstitutions, and grown in wealth. Its Dean is a prince of the Church, who lives ina Gothic mansion adjoining the Abbey, and enjoys an annual
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Thomson, Casaubon, Goldsmith, Southey, Macaulay, Dickens, Thackeray, Paoli,Wilberforce, Handel, Kemble, Mrs. Siddons, and Garrick. Lastly, amongst thosewho have made the earth their study, are Stamford Baffles, Bcnncl, Chardin,Lyell, and Livingstone. Westminster Abbey has survived, notwithstanding the Reformation. It still is. LONDON. 185 in possession of its church, chapter-house, and cloister, has retained its ancientinstitutions, and grown in wealth. Its Dean is a prince of the Church, who lives ina Gothic mansion adjoining the Abbey, and enjoys an annual stipend of £2, Chapter has a revenue of £60,000, out of which 1,000 guineas are annuallyexpended upon the public school dependent upon it. In many respects this West-minster School resembles a grammar school of the sixteenth century rather than amodern place of instruction.* It was near it, in the old Almonry of Westminster,that William Caxton, before the year 1477, set up the first printing-press inEngland. Close to the ancient abbey, on the banks of the Thames, rises WestminsterPalace, reconstructed since the fire of 1834, to serve as a seat for the two Housesof Parliament. This Gothic edifice is one of the vastest in the world, for it covers8 acres, and contains more than a thousand rooms of all sizes, a chapel, and 2miles of corridors. But,
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