. London . ND MERCHANT is never safe to adopt in blind con-fidence the conclusions of theantiquary. He works with frag-ments ; here it is a passage inan old deed ; here a few linesof poetry ; here a broken vase ;here the capital of a column ;here a drawing, cramped, andout of proportion, and dwarfed,from an illuminated kind of work tends to be-little everything; the splendidcity becomes a mean, smalltown ; King Solomons Temple,glorious and vast, shrinks to thedimensions of a village con-venticle ; Behemoth himself be-comes an alligator ; Leviathan, a porpoise ; history, read by
. London . ND MERCHANT is never safe to adopt in blind con-fidence the conclusions of theantiquary. He works with frag-ments ; here it is a passage inan old deed ; here a few linesof poetry ; here a broken vase ;here the capital of a column ;here a drawing, cramped, andout of proportion, and dwarfed,from an illuminated kind of work tends to be-little everything; the splendidcity becomes a mean, smalltown ; King Solomons Temple,glorious and vast, shrinks to thedimensions of a village con-venticle ; Behemoth himself be-comes an alligator ; Leviathan, a porpoise ; history, read bythis reducing lens, becomes a series of patriotic instance, the late Dr. Brewer, a true antiquary, if everthere was one, could sec in mediaeval London nothing but acollection of mean and low tenements standing amongsqualid streets and filthy lanes. That this estimate of theCity is wholly incorrect we shall now proceed to show. Anycity, ancient or modern, might be described as consisting of.
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