"We may either proceed from principles to facts,……" — Henry Mayhew
"We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles"
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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.
- The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
- A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to…
- There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns…
- Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved
- Advice to persons about to marry - don't
- The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought…
- Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there…
- But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at…
- I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the…
- The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and…
- Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the…