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Advice to persons about to marry - don't
Henry Mayhew / Journalist
Advice
Persons
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Advice to persons about to marry - don't.
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Advice
Persons
Marry
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Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved
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Girl
Ballet
Reputation
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Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
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Cases
Reputation
Deserved
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We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles
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Facts
May
Principles
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We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
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Principles
Proceed
Recede
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We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.
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London
Course
Ditch
Street
Tidal
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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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Boys
Cheating
Employers
Stealing
Informed
Steal
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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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Knowledge
Acquiring Knowledge
Method
Acquiring
Inductive
Mode
Using
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The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it
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Quality
Animal
Vegetables
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The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.
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Animal
Essential
Seeks
Vegetable
Whereas
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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
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Coal
Fire
Heart
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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.
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Coal
Dinner
Fine
Moral
Port
Beside
Hearts
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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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People
Principles
Taverns
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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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Assembling
Charter
Evening
Habit
Principles
Advocate
Several
Tavern
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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
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England
Tone
Towns
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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.
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England
Morality
Tone
Towns
Districts
Rural
Throughout
Wanting
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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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Space
Cities
Wall
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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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Acres
Covered
London
Metropolis
Extent
Occupies
Walls
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But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system
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Branches
Division
Firsts
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But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
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Branches
Impossible
Labour
Manifold
Minutes
Divisions
Reduce
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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.
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Dignity
Facts
Mind
Order
Raised
Assimilated
Convey
Discriminated
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Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact
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Elements
Ideas
Useless
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Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
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Elements
Mere
According
Matters
None
Truths
Utterly
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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.
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Cholera
Fearful
Ran
Seventeen
Spread
Years Ago
Opposite
Appeared
Street
Seventeen Years
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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
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Aggravation
Nightfall
Sake
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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 / Journalist
Consent
Creatures
Humiliation
Parks
Sake
Species
Wander
Acquiring
Degraded
Park
Paths
Properly
Utterly
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