How to Live in London; Or, the Metropolitan Microscope, and Stranger's Guide: Elucidating the Manner ... by which Thousands Exist in Apparent Respectability ... Explaining Also how this May be Effected Honestly ...J. Smith, 1828 - 138 páginas |
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Página 89 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Página 97 - His horses they say were all cheats, how honest soever their master was, for he scarcely ever produced a horse, but he looked like what he was not, and was what nobody could expect him to be. " If he was as light as the wind, and could fly like a meteor, he was sure to look as clumsy...
Página 70 - notes and observations" of a magistrate of the county of Middlesex, upon the minutes of evidence taken before a select committee appointed by the House of Commons, to inquire into the state of the police of the metropolis.
Página 96 - Being there in October, I had the opportunity to see the horse-races, and a great concourse of the nobility and gentry, as well from London as from all parts of England...
Página 78 - About two years ago,' says Mr. Finnigan, in his evidence before the Committee, ' there was an old woman who kept a night-school, not for the purpose of instructing children to spell and read, but for the sole purpose of teaching them the street language — thai is, to scold : this was for females particularly.
Página 72 - ... and their mode of exciting charity for shoes is, invariably to go barefooted, and scarify their feet and heels with something or another to cause the blood as it were to flow ; I have seen them in that situation many times : and thus they sally out to their different departments, but...
Página 71 - ... from half an hour to three or four hours. Their receipts, at a moderate calculation, cannot be less than from three to five shillings a day each person. They cannot be supposed to spend less at night than half-a-crown, and they generally pay sixpence for their bed. They are to be found in those houses throughout the day : but in great numbers from eight to nine in the morning, and late in the evening. It is their custom to sally out early in the morning, and those who have any money left of the...
Página 96 - England; but they were all so intent, so eager, so busy upon the sharping part of the sport, their wagers and bets, that to me they seemed just so many horse-coursers in Smithfield, descending, the greatest of them, from their high dignity and quality, to the picking one another's pockets...
Página 94 - Some have been several days within the walls, paying a heavy rent for their lodgings, before they learnt from their fellow prisoners that they had a legal right to a share of a room. The ordinary proceeding is for one of the turnkeys to take the prisoner on his arrival to the coffee-house, the master of which provides a room at the cost of about 3s. a night, or a lodging is engaged from some one of that numerous class of persons who, having been...
Página 97 - ... grand day ; but how, as not knowing the difference equally with their riders, they would then exert their utmost strength, as much as at the time of the race itself, and that to such an extremity, that one or two of them died in the stable, when they came to be rubbed after the first heat.