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HERBERT S. LEON.
on
LONDON
Dedication
under your protection, has conferred an honour upon me, as grateful as it is gracious.
The splendid and useful improvements that have been effected in this Metropolis, under your Majesty's auspices, and which it is the business of this work to describe, will render the name of GEORGE THE FOURTH, as illustrious in the British annals, as that of Augustus in those of Rome.
The power of England, concentrated by peace, and directed by wise counsels, extends its general influence over a greater portion of the habitable globe, than did ever that of Rome by the demoralizing influence of the sword. And under the benign reign of your Majesty, we derive more advantages from the liberal cultivation of arts of peace, than did any other people, from the most triumphant consequences of successful war.
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You’ve reached the end of Metropolitan improvements, or, London in the nineteenth century : displayed in a series of engravings of the new buildings, improvements, &c. by the most eminent artists, from original drawings, taken from the objects themselves expressly for this work.