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Henry Mayhew
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
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 by themselves as your mere matters of fact. Henry Mayhew
Matters Fact Facts Mere Merely Ideas None According Truths Themselves Your Useless Elements Utterly
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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