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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People ... Charles Dickens No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 248 - Gin-drinking is a great vice in England, but wretchedness and dirt are a greater ; and until you improve the homes of the poor, or persuade a half-famished wretch not to seek relief in the temporary oblivion of his own misery, with the pittance which, divided among his family, would furnish a morsel of bread for each, gin-shops will increase in number and splendor.
Page 291 - Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Page 105 - ... when our eyes happened to alight on a few suits of clothes ranged outside a shop-window, which it immediately struck us, must at different periods have all belonged to, and been worn by, the same individual, and had now, by one of those strange conjunctions of circumstances which will occur sometimes, come to be exposed together for sale in the same shop. The idea seemed a fantastic one, and we looked at the clothes again, with a firm determination not to be easily led away. No, we were right;...
Page 290 - CHRISTMAS time ! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused — in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened — by the recurrence of Christmas. There are people who will tell you that Christmas is not to them what it used to be ; that each succeeding Christmas has found some cherished hope, or happy prospect, of the year before, dimmed or passed...
Page 243 - From that moment it has spread among them with unprecedented rapidity, exhibiting a concatenation of all the previous symptoms ; onward it has rushed to every part of town, knocking down all the old public-houses, and depositing splendid mansions, stone balustrades, rosewood fittings, immense lamps, and illuminated clocks, at the corner of every street.