The Seven Curses of LondonFields, Osgood, & Company, 1869 - 336 pages |
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Page 282 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Page 219 - District, and for all Persons whom he shall call to his Assistance, to take into Custody, without a Warrant, any Person who within View of any such Constable shall offend in any Manner against this Act, and whose Name and Residence shall be unknown to such Constable, and cannot be ascertained by such Constable.
Page 218 - Commissioners of Police shall have made for regulating the route of horses, carts, carriages, and persons during the time of Divine Service, and for preventing obstructions during public processions, and on other occasions hereinbefore specified, shall wilfully disregard or not conform himself thereunto : 10. Every person who, without the consent of the owner or occupier, shall affix any posting bill or other paper against or upon...
Page 218 - Every person who shall use any threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned : 14.
Page 150 - ... and that of 1531 was revived. In 1551 an act was passed which directed that a book should be kept in every parish, containing the names of the householders and of the impotent poor; that collectors of alms should be appointed who should "gently ask every man and woman what they of their charity will give weekly to the relief of the poor.
Page 13 - I find that it is not only deficient in the due proportion of oxygen, but it contains three times the usual amount of carbonic acid, besides a quantity of aqueous vapour charged with alkaline matter that stinks abominably.
Page 151 - Living by ; and also to raise weekly or otherwise (by Taxation of every Inhabitant, Parson, Vicar, and other, and of every Occupier of Lands, Houses, Tithes Impropriate, Propriations of Tithes, Coal Mines or saleable Underwoods in the said Parish...
Page 224 - There is no fear of his missing it ; no chance of his fixing on a wrong night. It is always the same at the music-hall. Its meat is other men's poison; and it can fatten and prosper while honesty starves. The bane and curse of society is its main support ; and to introduce the purging besom would be to ruin the business. At the same time, I would wish it to be distinctly understood, that I do not desire to convey to the reader the impression that the numerical majority of musichall frequenters are...
Page 218 - Every common prostitute or nightwalker loitering or being in any thoroughfare or public place for the purpose of prostitution or solicitation, to the annoyance of the inhabitants or passers-by,
Page 313 - Where the husband of any woman is beyond the seas, or in custody of the law, or in confinement in a licensed house or asylum as a lunatic or idiot, all relief which the Guardians shall give to his wife, or her child or children, shall be given to such woman, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions, as if she were a widow.