Henry Mayhew Professions : Journalist Born : November 25, 1812 Died : July 25, 1887 Browse All Authors Top 16 quotes by 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 quality vegetables animal The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it. Henry Mayhew acquiring-knowledge method The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them. Henry Mayhew stealing boys cheating 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 nightfall aggravation sake 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 Henry Mayhew wall space cities We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles Henry Mayhew principles may facts 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 Henry Mayhew taverns principles people 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 Henry Mayhew division branches firsts 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 Henry Mayhew elements useless ideas Advice to persons about to marry - don't Henry Mayhew persons advice Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved Henry Mayhew reputation ballet girl 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 tone towns england 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 mind order facts 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 coal fire heart 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 street end down year We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course. Henry Mayhew ditch street down london Similar Authors Irving Bacheller journalist Bill Keller journalist Bob Woodward journalist Bolesław Prus journalist Buzz Bissinger journalist Burton Rascoe journalist All Authors
