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.
From Henry Mayhew
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 covered by the whole metropolis.
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.
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
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 at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.
Advice to persons about to marry - don't.
We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.
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.
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