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 MayhewBut 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 MayhewThe 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 MayhewThe costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
Henry Mayhew