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 Copy Share Image
The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
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… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly… — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them. — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course. — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved — Henry Mayhew Copy Share Image
