Notes and Narratives of a Six Years' Mission, Principally Among the Dens of London |
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Page 8
... writer happened to be in the neighbourhood , and observed that a very great disturbance was going on . He was led to dive into the nest of courts and alleys towards the scene of violence , and stopped at a door . A man who was standing ...
... writer happened to be in the neighbourhood , and observed that a very great disturbance was going on . He was led to dive into the nest of courts and alleys towards the scene of violence , and stopped at a door . A man who was standing ...
Page 9
... writer's labours were , it nevertheless was formerly much worse . The change is in a measure attri- butable to the efforts of the London City Mission . The improved system of constabulary police , introduced by the late Sir Robert Peel ...
... writer's labours were , it nevertheless was formerly much worse . The change is in a measure attri- butable to the efforts of the London City Mission . The improved system of constabulary police , introduced by the late Sir Robert Peel ...
Page 17
... want of education . The writer has pursued most extensively a system of inquiry , and the result has been , that in the case of very C nearly all those persons who have been observed battling nobly PARTS OF CLERKENWELL . 17.
... want of education . The writer has pursued most extensively a system of inquiry , and the result has been , that in the case of very C nearly all those persons who have been observed battling nobly PARTS OF CLERKENWELL . 17.
Page 18
... writer become in this matter , that on entering a room and making observations respecting the demeanour , persons , and habits of the parties visited , he has almost invariably determined aright in his own mind previous to questioning ...
... writer become in this matter , that on entering a room and making observations respecting the demeanour , persons , and habits of the parties visited , he has almost invariably determined aright in his own mind previous to questioning ...
Page 19
... write : - " Bless you , sir , " said he , " why , when I was a boy , there warnt no larning for gals and boys as there is now , not for miles there warnt ; besides if there had a been , it warnt no use to me . My father was a brickmaker ...
... write : - " Bless you , sir , " said he , " why , when I was a boy , there warnt no larning for gals and boys as there is now , not for miles there warnt ; besides if there had a been , it warnt no use to me . My father was a brickmaker ...
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