"The city of London, within the walls, occupies……" — 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"
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16 Quotes by Henry Mayhew
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The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
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The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
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A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to…
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There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns…
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Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved
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Advice to persons about to marry - don't
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The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought…
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Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there…
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But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at…
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I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the…
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We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles
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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the…
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More Acres Quotes
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one of 122 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and…
— Samuel Beckett
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My dad was the manager at the 45,000-acre ranch, but he owned his own 1,200-acre ranch, and I owned four…
— Dave Brubeck
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It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
— Betty Buckley
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It's very important to go back and keep in mind the distinction between handling these events as criminal acts, which…
— Dick Cheney
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can…
— George A. Sheehan
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And in this battle, Brother William (Guillaume), Master of the Templars, lost an eye; and he had lost the other…
— Jean de Joinville
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
— Red Auerbach
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Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives…
— Orison Swett Marden
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That hemisphere of the moon which faces us is better known than the earth itself; its vast desert plains have…
— Camille Flammarion
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It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.
— Keith Preston
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