A Chapter on Street Nuisances. Extracted from “Passages from the life of a philosopher.”
$3,900 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books
”I have obtained, in my own country, an unenviable celebrity, not by anything I have done, but simply by a determined resistance to the tyranny of the lowest mob, whose love, not of music, but of the most discordant noises, is so great that it insists upon enjoying it at all hours and in every street. It may therefore be expected that I should in this volume state at least the outline of my own case...”During the last ten years, the amount of street
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