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

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it

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

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.