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Henry Mayhew
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Henry Mayhew
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular…
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent…
I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People’s Charter were in the…
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared…
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless…
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce…
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth,…
We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
The costermongers’ boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall…
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Advice to persons about to marry – don’t.
It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old…
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
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