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" Westminster, that we find the most flagrant traces of their swarming activity. There the foul and dismal passages are thronged with children of both sexes, and of every age from three to thirteen. Though wan and haggard, they are singularly vivacious,... "
The Glory and Shame of England - Page 369
by Charles Edwards Lester - 1866
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 79

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 578 pages
...thoroughfares. Whitechapel and Spitalfields teem with them like an ant's-nest ; but it is in Lambeth and in Westminster that we find the most flagrant traces...in every sort of occupation but that which would be beneficial to themselves and creditable to the neighbourhood. Their appearance is wild ; the matted...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 79

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1847 - 592 pages
...thoroughfares. Whitechapel and Spitalfields teem with them like an ant's-nest; but it is in Lambeth and in Westminster that we find the most flagrant traces...in every sort of occupation but that which would be beneficial to themselves and creditable to the neighbourhood. Their appearance is wild ; the matted...
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The Social Condition and Education of the People in England and ..., Volume 1

Joseph Kay - 1850 - 680 pages
...concealed behind the deceptive frontages of our larger thoroughfares. Whitechapel and Spitalfields teem with them like an ant's nest ; but it is in Lambeth...every sort of occupation but that, which would be beneficial to themselves and creditable to the neighbourhood. Their appearance is wild ; the matted...
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Roger Miller; Or, Heroism in Humble Life: A Narrative

George Orme - 1852 - 228 pages
...fetid courts and alleys that lie concealed behind the deceptive frontages of our large thoroughfares But it is in Lambeth and Westminster that we find...most flagrant traces of their swarming activity." When, in the year 1844, the "Rookery" in St. Giles' was pulled down, largo numbers of the most wretched...
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Principles of Social Science, Volume 3

Henry Charles Carey - 1859 - 528 pages
...where all sense of propriety and self* " Whitechapel and Spitalfields," says the Quarterly Review, "teem with them like an ant's nest ; but it is in...in every sort of occupation but that which would be beneficial to themselves and creditable to the neighborhood. Their appearance is wild ; the matted...
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Principles of Social Science, Volume 3

Henry Charles Carey - 1859 - 528 pages
...life; where all sense of propriety and self* "'Whitechapcl and Spitalfields," snys the Quarterly Renew, "teem with them like an ant's nest; but it is in Lambeth...engaged in every sort of occupation but that which would bo beneficial to themselves and creditable to the neighborhood. Their appearonce is wild; the matted...
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Principles of Social Science, Volume 3

Henry Charles Carey - 1859 - 542 pages
...self* "Whitechapel and Spitalfields," says the Quarterly Review, "teem with them like an ant's neat; but it is in Lambeth and Westminster, that we find...from three to thirteen. Though wan and haggard, they arc singularly vivacious, and engaged in every sort of occupation bnt that which would bo beneficial...
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Principles of social science, Volume 3

Henry Charles Carey - 1859 - 546 pages
...; where all sense of propriety and self* "Whitechapel and Spitalfields," says the Quarterly Review, "teem with them like an ant's nest ; but it is in Lambeth and Westminster, that ire find the most flagrant traces of their swarming activity. There the foul and dismal passages are...
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Principles of Social Science, Volume 3

Henry Charles Carey - 1860 - 528 pages
...; where all sense of propriety and self* " Whitechapel and Spitalficlds," snys the Quarterly Rnua, "teem with them like an ant's nest; but it is in Lambeth...we find the most flagrant traces of their swarming activitv. There the foul and dismal passages are thronged with children of both sexcs, and of every...
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The Social Condition and Education of the People in England

Joseph Kay - 1863 - 332 pages
...concealed behind the deceptive frontages of our larger thoroughfares. Whitechapel and Spitalfields teem with them like an ant's nest; but it is in Lambeth...every sort of occupation but that, which would be beneficial to themselves and creditable to the neighbourhood. Their appearance is wild ; the matted...
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