Sunday, March 16, 2008

Royal Exchange

Addison’s Royal Exchange (p. 2479)

Category: prose
Date: 1711

-London as center of business, many different nationalities represented
-global trading/import and export
-humanitarian, respects and enioys diversity
-people united by trade – food grows in one country, sauce in another
-England alone is barren
-all are interwoven
-trade is beneficial – multiplied the number of rich, made estates worth more, brought new exotic products

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