London (England) - Social conditions - Early works to 1800
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A vision, concerning the great city in London
Date: 1705]- E-books
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Augusta triumphans or, the way to make London the most flourishing city in the universe. First, by establishing an university where Gentlemen may have Academical Education under the Eye of their Friends. II. By an Hospital for Foundlings. III. By forming an Academy of Sciences at Christ's-Hospital. IV. By suppressing pretended Mad-Houses, where many of the fair Sex are unjustly confin'd, while their Husbands keep Mistresses, &c. and many Widows are lock'd up for the Sake of their Jointure. V. To save our Youth from Destruction, by clearing the Streets of impudent Strumpets. Suppressing Gaming - Tables, and Sunday Debauches. VI. To save our lower Class of People from utter Ruin, and render them useful by preventing the immoderate Use of Geneva: With a frank Explosion of many other common Abuses, and incontestable Rules for Amendment. Concluding with an effectual method to prevent street robberies; and a letter to Coll. Robinson, on account of the orphan's tax. By Andrew Moreton, Esq;.
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.Date: [1729]- E-books
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A trip through London : containing observations on men and things, to which is added, A brief and merry character of Ireland / by a Berkshire gentleman lately return'd from that Kingdom.
Jones, ErasmusDate: [1728]- E-books
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A fortnights ramble through London , or a complete display of all the cheats and frauds practized in that great metropolis with the best methods for eluding them being a pleasing narrative of the adventures of a farmer's son ..
Date: 1792 [1793]- E-books
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The vices of the cities of London and Westminster . Trac'd from their original. Being an impartial detection of the true cause and source of the present growth of immorality, and the prodigious number of Thefts and Robberies daily committed in the Streets, &c. of this Metropolis. With Some rational Hints proposed for removing those Evils, restoring the Morals of the People, and securing our Persons and Properties against the Outrages of these Villains. In five letters, from a citizen of London to a Member of Parliament.
Citizen of LondonDate: 1751