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Fragmented Views on Climate Class and English Character
A long excerpt discusses how climate and soil shape inhabitants, animals, and plants, claiming England’s harshness and pride arise from weather and terrain. It praises English resilience while critiquing vulgar manners and the pettiness of the poor, then shifts to comments on wages, social discipline, and policing of journeymen tailors amid a 1760 London scene.
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Macedonia
Fez
England
China
London
Fay Oxyn
Taylor
University of Cambridge
St. Fames’s
University of Oxford
Taylors