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Babylon the Great (Volume 2); A Dissection of Men and Things in the British Capital

Babylon the Great (Volume 2); A Dissection of Men and Things in the British Capital


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825. Excerpt: ... BABYLON THE GREAT. CHAPTER I. LONDON PARTICULAR ELOQUENCE, AKD LONDON ELOQUENCE NOT VERY PARTICULAR.. vertice ad auras &therias, tantum radici in Tartare tendit. Vihoii. One who is fonder of pleasing himself with the creations of his own wayward fancy, than of stating plain truths and plain words, would find delightful scope in laying hold of the opposite ends of things and circumstances in Babylon the Great, bringing them together, and pointing out the singular contrasts which they form to each other. Babylonian wealth is doubtless the greatest of all wealth; but Babylonian misery, which haply dwells at the next door, is the very extreme of human privation. Babylonian science is just as eagle, eyed as though there were not a single parti Vol. II.--B cle of charcoal in all her dingy atmosphere; but Babylonian stupidity is just as obtuse as though the fogs of Boeotia formed her eternal mantle. Babylonian song is--or rather was, for it is long since all that was perishable of " one John Milton, a schoolmaster," died--is the most lofty and sublime that ever was heard in any land; but Babylonian poetry--vide the whole drove of her rhyming sons and daughters--is the sorriest stuff that ever unretentive brains, or skulls leaky because cracked, inflicted upon the world. Babylonian honesty approaches remarkably near to perfection, and though it be a piece of mechanism, it is a piece of mechanism which is very beautiful and very lasting; but no where, perchance, in the world, is there to be found so organised a system of fraud and deceit, or a system played in so many parts or by so many performers. The beautiful similitude of the image, under which the empire of the ancient Babylon was presented to the dreaming monarch of (hat great city, applies as well to Babylo...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781153940900
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 68
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1153940906
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 190 gr


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