Henry Mayhew Quotes

We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course. - Henry Mayhew

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles. - 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 manufactures. - Henry Mayhew

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. - Henry Mayhew

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. - Henry Mayhew

The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them. - Henry Mayhew

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

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

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. - Henry Mayhew

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