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 you see a sort of shabby finery, a number of people of quality tawdried out, narrow nasty streets, out of repair, wretchedly thin of inhabitants, and above half of the common people asking alms." Lady M. W. Montague's Letters, vol. I. page 16.

"Every house in Turkey," the same excellent writer observes, "at the death of its master, is at the grand seignior's disposal; and therefore no man cares to make a great expence, which he is not sure his family will be the better for. All their design is to build a house commodious, and that will last their lives, and they are very indifferent if it falls down the next year." Ib. p. 70.

"The fear of the laws," says the admirable author of the Essay on crimes and punishments, "is salutary, but the fear of man is a fruitful and fatal source of crimes. Men enslaved are more voluptuous, more debauched,