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Four centuries since the Merchants of London could not boast of a public Exchange. They then assembled to transact business in Lombard-street, among the Lombard Jews, from whom the street derives its name, and who were then the bankers of all Europe. Here too they probably kep...
In the exterior of Mozart there was nothing remarkable; he was small in person, and had a very agreeable countenance, but it did not discover the greatness of his genius at the...
1. Chapter 1Four centuries since the Merchants of London could not boast of a public Exchange. They then assembled to transact business in Lombard-street, among the Lombard Jews, from whom...
2. Chapter 2The hermitage of St. Elericus, the patron saint of Jersey, a holy man who suffered martyrdom at the time the pagan Normans invaded the island, is said to have occupied an isolat...
4. Chapter 4Lady Morgan, in her _Book of the Boudoir_, says, "The late Marquess of Londonderry was a _liveable_, cheerful, _give-and-take person_." Again, "_Vitality_, or _all-a-live-ness_,...