"I have often amused myself with thinking how different a place London is to different people. - A politician thinks of it merely as the seat of government in its different departments; a grazier, as a vast market for cattle; a man of pleasure, as an assemblage of taverns; a mercantile man, as a place where a prodigious deal of business is done upon Change; a dramatic enthusiast, as the grand scene of theatrical entertainments. "BUT THE INTELLECTUAL MAN IS STRUCK WITH IT AS COMPREHENDING THE WHOLE OF HUMAN LIFE IN ALL ITS VARIETY, THE CONTEMPLATION OF WHICH IS INEXHAUSTIBLE." BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON. |