 Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings, but in...  La Belle Assemblée - Seite 2001806Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | George Hamilton Cunningham - 1927 - 922 Seiten
...GREAT BRITAIN To MY WIFE E. DE VW WHO GAVE HER LIFE THAT THIS BOOK MIGHT BE * -(, -i "f" FOREWORD "SiR, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the shewy evolutions of buildings,... | |
 | 1876 - 938 Seiten
...avenues, the place you seek is located, you can reach it afoot or by conveyance with little difficulty. " If you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude of a city," says Boswell, " you must not be satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1879 - 820 Seiten
...Boswell, " he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford." And again : — " Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings,... | |
 | Richard B. Schwartz - 1983 - 220 Seiten
...manner in which the impact of the city's size could best be experienced: "Sir, if you wish to Sights, have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be Sounds, and survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings,... | |
 | Simon Eisner, Arthur Gallion, Stanley Eisner - 1993 - 662 Seiten
...Environment 13. Southem Sierra Club. Southem Sitreau. December 1990. Los Angeles, Calif. Sir, if you with to have a just notion of the magnitude of this city, you must not be satisfied with ieeing its geeat streets and squares, but must tuivry the innumerable liitle lanes and courts. -Samuel... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 Seiten
...seen white-robed innocence, andflower-besplangled meads." [65] Talking of London, he observed, "Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings,... | |
 | Jennifer Davis Michael - 2006 - 252 Seiten
..."legible."-"1 Samuel Johnson considered the city's essence to rest in its minute localities: "Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings,... | |
 | 1851 - 432 Seiten
...an hour or two at any point will serve the purpose, Talking of London, Dr. Johnson said — " Sir, if you wish to have a just notion of the magnitude...satisfied with seeing its great streets and squares, but must survey the innumerable little lanes and courts. It is not in the showy evolutions of buildings,... | |
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