Shades and Echoes of Old London (Classic Reprint)

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Within her walls; and has a second population, nobler than the sculptures of Greece and the gods of her mythology. Almost defying calculation as the material wealth of our metropolis may be, unparalleled as 'the value Of its shipping and its stores, ' its commerce and its money, its estates and their treasures, its arts and its manufactures, its antiquities and its curiosities - all that is surpassed by the moral wealth of its names and memories. NO material interests, no common welfare can so bind a community together and make it strong of heart, as a history of rights maintained, and virtues incorrupted, and freedom won; and one legend Of conscience is worth more to a country than hidden gold and fertile plains.'

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