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Henry Mayhew
English
Journalist
Born:
Nov 25
,
1812
Died:
Jul 25
,
1887
Acquiring
Down
Facts
First
Knowledge
Principles
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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 port.
Henry Mayhew
Good
Old
Dinner
Fire
Enough
Our
Beside
Moral
Easy
Fine
Well
Hearts
After
Coal
Port
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 habit of assembling.
Henry Mayhew
People
Several
Charter
Habit
Principles
Advocate
Were
Tavern
Where
Who
Assembling
Evening
The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
Henry Mayhew
Will
Steal
Cheat
Employers
Boy
Am
Informed
Them
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, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
Henry Mayhew
Truth
Knowledge
Dignity
Mind
Made
Other
Must
Some
Fact
Facts
Least
Discriminated
Order
Convey
Assimilated
Raised
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 them to any system.
Henry Mayhew
Impossible
First
System
Minutes
Seems
Divisions
Almost
Industry
Reduce
Branches
Labour
Any
Manifold
Them
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 manufactures.
Henry Mayhew
Rural
Districts
Morality
Throughout
Particular
Towns
Wanting
Which
England
Large
Tone
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
Henry Mayhew
Reputation
Bad
Cases
Most
Well
Which
Deserved
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 in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.
Henry Mayhew
Women
Humiliation
Lost
Few
Sense
Those
Degraded
About
Properly
Park
Shame
Parks
Most
Sake
Any
Paths
Wander
So-Called
After
Acquiring
Who
Creatures
Species
Utterly
Consent
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