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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: inconvenience and bred pestilence were made wide; warehouses and
dwellings of solid brick and carved stone, with doors, window-
frames, and breastsummers of stout oak, replaced irregular though
not unpicturesque habitations; whilst the halls of companies,
eminent taverns, and abodes of great merchants, were now built
"with fair courtyards before them, and pleasant gardens behind
them, and fair spacious rooms and galleries in them, little
inferior to some princes' palaces." Moreover, churches designed
by the genius of Christopher Wren, adorned with spires, steeples,
and minarets, intersected the capital at all points.
This new, handsome, and populous city presented an animated, ever
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