Qrbe Opertator
APRIL 30, 1831
IN London there are a thousand aristocraeic''n' great and small, each of which is monopoly, and on a system of grades, wilt' j teaches men to crawl and climb instead thinking inking soundly and acting conscientious.151; there is the boroughmongcring one. vihm,i rides over all; those of Threadneedle Ach Leadenhall Streets, with their Directors, of whom may influence five hundred hricr; men than himself; that of the Law, witut,..d.i long and difficUlt ladder. each step of w"1",o is guarded by a crowd pulling at those vic them and kicking hard at all below: the Ct Corporation, with its four ranks of the Ci'Attit,: the Gown, the Council, and the Livery. ant' enormous fund for the purpose of turning inf.,. into sycophants or ciphers; that of the for which are as a scale of artificial distinctions those who want neither money nor Poss:eral which teach men to think by conventiopo rules, and to act in constant fear of held,. marked as eccentric when they are onlY.ne pendent; and (we have room for but this one more) the most preposterous of all, that of fashion, directed by the patronesses • ns Almack's—who live to create distinetOof amongst women, and to set an examPle co, insolence and folly, which is eagerly follesvv,/ with superadded meanness, by the ranks hetory
v them, the vulgar of Gloucester Place, the s; vulgar of Bloomsbury, and the most nig women of the suburbs.
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