Sunlight and shadow; . ieves—Practisingat picking Pockets — Perverse Judgments of Perverse Natures —At Enmity with the World — The Gospel-Grinder — Philosophyof a Boy-Thief—Selling Hinguns — A Rough-and-Ready Mis-sionary — No Genus in picking a Pocket — Fear makes Cow-ards of us — Religion hurts the Business — A Publican spoiled —Real Courage — The Sermon of the Converted Swee^D — Parableof the Ignorant Cabman — Rough Welcome to the Preacher. O^NDOi^ and its people are an inex-haustible theme. The different opin-ions of different people about Londonwould fill volumes. Dr. Johnson says:1 have o
Sunlight and shadow; . ieves—Practisingat picking Pockets — Perverse Judgments of Perverse Natures —At Enmity with the World — The Gospel-Grinder — Philosophyof a Boy-Thief—Selling Hinguns — A Rough-and-Ready Mis-sionary — No Genus in picking a Pocket — Fear makes Cow-ards of us — Religion hurts the Business — A Publican spoiled —Real Courage — The Sermon of the Converted Swee^D — Parableof the Ignorant Cabman — Rough Welcome to the Preacher. O^NDOi^ and its people are an inex-haustible theme. The different opin-ions of different people about Londonwould fill volumes. Dr. Johnson says:1 have often amused myself withthinking how different a place Londonis to different people. A politician^§^ thinks of it merely as the seat of gov-ernment; a grazier, as a great mart for cat-tle; a man of pleasure, as an assemblage of tavernsand theatres; a mercantile man, as a place where aprodigious amount of business is done upon Change;but the intellectual man is struck with it as compre- 110. INEXHAUSTIBLE LONDOIJ^. Ill bending the Avhole of human life in all its variety, thecontemplation of which is inexhaustible. The samegreat authority declared that Fleet Street contained the most sublime and picturesque combinations ofobjects within the periphery of our terraqueous another occasion the sage exclaims: Sir, no manthat is at all intellectual will leave London. No, he has exhausted London, he has exhaustedlife; for there is in London all that life can afford. The literature of England, of Europe, of the world,at any place or any time, wrote the author of Mod-ern Babylon, contains not a page, a volume, or abook so mighty in import, so magnificent in explana-tion, as the single word London. Byron calledLondon one superb menagerie; Cobbett called it a great wen; Thackeray called it Vanity Lamb, Horace Smith, and other wits, couldlive nowhere but in London. As these men lovedLondon for its society, so other men love it for i
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