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" After all this, to a friend I'll expose
" my weakness, as an instance of the
" mind's unquietness under the most
" pleasing enjoyments. I am oftener
" missing a pretty gallery in the old
" house I pulled down, than pleased
" with a saloon which I built in its
" stead, though a thousand times bet-
" ter in all manner of respects.
" And now (pour fair bonne bouche,
" with a grave reflection) it were well
" for us, if this incapacity of being en-
" tirely contented was as sure a proof
" of our being reserved for happiness in
" in another world, as it is of our frail-
" ty and imperfection in this. I confess
" the divines tell us so, but tho' I believe
" a future state more firmly than a great
" many of them appear to do, by their
" inordinate desires of the good things in
" this; yet I own my faith is founded,
" not on those fallacious arguments of
" preachers, but on that adorable con-
" junction of unbounded power and
" goodness, which certainly must some
" wayrecompemse hereafter so many
" thousands of innocent wretches creat-
" ed to be so miserable here."
BUCKINGHAM street, a handsome street,
and well inhabited, extends from the
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Strand to the river Thames, where for
for the convenience of taking water
are built those fine stairs called York
stairs. The street is thus called from
John Villars Duke of Buckingham.
See YORK BUILDINGS, and YORK
STAIRS.
BUCKLE street, Red Lion street, White-
chapel.
BUCKLERSBURY, Cheapside. Mr Mait-
land observes that it is more properly
Bucklesbury, as it was originally so named,
from a manor and tenements belonging
to one Buckles, who dwelt and kept his
courts there.
BUCKLER'S rents, Rotherhith wall.
BUCKRIDGE alley, George street, Spital-
fields.
BUCKRIDGE court, Bambridge street.
BUCK'S HEAD court, Great Distaff lane.
BUCK'S rents, Rosemary lane.
BUDGE row, Watling street.
BUFFORD'S buildings, St. John street, Smith-
field.
BULL alley, 1. Back alley, in Three ham-
mer alley, Tooley street. 2. Brick lane,
Old street. 3. Broad street, London
wall. 4. Bull stairs, Upper Ground
street, Southwark. 5. Fore street, Lam-
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