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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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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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Advice to persons about to marry - don't.

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We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.

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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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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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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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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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The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.

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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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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Journalist

Born: November 25th, 1812

Died: July 25th, 1887

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