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[ During the interval which has elapsed since this chapter was written, England has continued to advance rapidly in material prosperity, I have left my text nearly as it originally stood; but I have added a few notes which may enable the reader to form some notion of the progress which has been made during the last nine years; and, in general, I would desire him to remember that there is scarcely a district which is not more populous, or a source of wealth which is not more productive, at present than in 1848. (1857.)]
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[ Observations on the Bills of Mortality, by Captain John Graunt (Sir William Petty), chap. xi.]
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[
"She doth comprehend
Full fifteen hundred thousand which do spend
Their days within."
—Great Britain's Beauty, 1671.]
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[ Isaac Vossius, De Magnitudine Urbium Sinarum, 1685. Vossius, as we learn from Saint Evremond, talked on this subject oftener and longer than fashionable circles cared to listen.]