...whole duration of time and bespeak eternity for a life that is equal to it. AMUSEMENT III London TONDON is a world by itself; we daily discover in it more...the inhabitants themselves don't know a quarter of 'em. Imagine, then, what an Indian would think of such a motley herd of people, and what a diverting...

...frenetic anti-sociability of the crowd. 'Meridian' in the title means 'distinctive local character'. London is a world by itself; we daily discover in...the inhabitants themselves don't know a quarter of 'em. Imagine, then, what an Indian would think of such a motley herd of people, and what a diverting...

...In a statement that was later echoed by Joseph Addison in The Spectator, Thomas Brown wrote in 17o2: 'London is a world by itself. We daily discover in...the inhabitants themselves don't know a quarter of them.'2 In his recent book Joseph Ward maintains that, despite the growth of the suburbs in the seventeenth...

...exploring 'with a Travellers Eye, all the Remarkable Things of this Mighty City', in which there are 'more New Countries, and surprising Singularities than in all the Universe besides'.'''' But what 'Remarkable Things' about London did Samuel Pepys and other middling buyers see in the 'Crys'...

...this fragmentation was already evident in 1700 when Thomas Brown wrote 'We daily discover in [London] more new countries, and surprising singularities,...so many nations differing in manners, customs and religion, that the inhabitants themselves don't know a quarter of them.' The most obvious contrast...

...Brown had put it in Amusements Serious and Comical, Calculated for the Meridian of London (1700) ; "we daily discover in it more new countries and surprising singularities than in all the universe besides." 39 No philanthropists, philosophers, merchants, or pleasure-seeking gentry appear in Hazlitt's "London."...