[Gutenberg 48065] • Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2) / Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.

Excerpt from Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London During the Eighteenth Century, Vol. 1: Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements, of the Citizens of London, During That Period, With a Review of the State of Society in 1807

Customs from the Roman Invasion to 1700, in which will be found most of the apparnttomimbns discoverable in this; but I shall ever reserve a right to myself of saying nothing on a subject of which I have an imper fect knowledge, through impediments not always to be explained without a charge of prolixity. This circumstance, and the impossibility of knowing how the work would be received, compelled me to give a retrospective view, at the commencement of some chapters, that should contribute to render them satis factory, provided the early portion never appeared. The readers Of the Quarto edition of the History of the Eighteenth Century will therefore have the good ness to excuse the retrospective sketches in it; and those of the present will perceive the sketches alr laded to are omitted, in order to confine each event to its proper era in the work when completed.

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