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Indirect
circumstanced.
By the act for which gave a new face to the
city of London† the commissioners
In most of the streets of London the houses
are now numbered in virtue of a clause in the act which has given
the city a new face.† † 8. G. 3. c. 21 §. 23 This regulation it is evident
has something of the same tendency.
The indication given by dress may be still is more
may be more expeditious and less less confused
in point of time. The distinction in point of dress
which in all civilized countries are used to mark the
difference of sex contributes something to this effect.
The ring which distinguishes a married woman in
this and other countries are in use to distinguish themselves
from such as are single may also be mentioned
in this view. Liveries serve in some degree
to distinguish that class of male servants whom the opulent
have to attend about their persons. Professional
dresses, such as the robes of Judges and Bishops, the gowns of Barristers
and those of the inferior clergy, though the
in those and other such high elevated and responsible classes
the influence of such distinctions in this point of view
is the less perceptible, especially where the occasions
of wearing the dress are rare, must not altogether be
past in silence. In the universities the peculiar habits
which distinguish the whole body of the students from the
whole
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