" A Wind Storm in the Forests of the Yuba http://books.google.com/books?id=zj2gAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA55", Scribner's Monthly, volume XVII, number 1 (November 1878) pages 55-59 (at page 59); modified slightly and reprinted in The Mountains of California http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/the_mountains_of_california/ (1894), chapter 10: A Wind-Storm in the Forests
1890s, The Mountains of California (1894)
“In the United Kingdom, for example, the sheer overwhelming dominance of London makes it extremely for provincial cities to develop more than a very restricted financial function. London, in that sense, is akin to the notorious upas tree, a fabulous Javanese tree so poisonous that it destroys all life for many miles around itself.”
Source: Global Shift (2003) (Fourth Edition), Chapter 13, The Financial Services Industries, p. 467
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Source: Willa Cather in Europe (1956), Ch. 5 (22 July 1902)
[David, Brooks, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/opinion/24brooks.html?_r=1, Britain Is Working, New York Times, May 23, 2011, May 24, 2011]
2010s
September 20, 1777, p. 356
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III
Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 3
Source: The Waste Land (1922), Line 60 et seq.
This is a reference to Dante's Inferno, Canto III, lines 55-57
Home Secretary Charles Clarke, BBC radio, July 2005 following the London bombings
BlogTalkRadio "Milling About with Gillian Anderson" http://www.blogtalkradio.com/robin-milling/2013/05/24/milling-about-with-gillian-anderson (May 24, 2013)
2010s
“The custom of the city of London is a matter of fact.”
Rex v. Davis (1758), 1 Burr. Part IV. 641.