Humphry Clinker (1771) (2) [ Places / Practices ]
… The absurdity will appear in its full force, when we consider that one sixth part of the natives of this whole extensive kingdom is crowded within the bills of mortality. What wonder that our villages are depopulated, and our farms in want of … wilderness, in which there is neither watch nor ward of any signification, nor any order or police, affords them lurking-places as well as prey. There are many causes that contribute to the daily increase of this enormous mass; but they … and licentiousness, they are seen every where rambling, riding, rolling, rushing, justling, mixing, bouncing, cracking, and crashing in one vile ferment of stupidity and corruption—All is tumult and hurry; one would imagine they were …
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