... and comfort to the considerable population swarming and busied around you. Nothing of the kind. There were no public buildings of any sort ; no churches, chapels, town-hall, institute, theatre ; and the principal streets in the heart of the town in... Novels and tales. (Hughenden ed.) - Page 187by Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881Full view - About this book
| Benjamin Disraeli - Chartism - 1845 - 496 pages
...the belief that their day to be masters and oppressors will surely arrive, the aristocracy of Wodgato is by no means so unpopular as the aristocracy of...nothing can be conceived more close and squalid and obscnre. Here, during the days of business, the sound of the hammer and the file never ceased, amid... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1871 - 628 pages
...ignorant, for ignorance is relative ; but they are animals ; unconscious ; their minds a blank ; and thoir worst actions only the impulse of a gross or savage...passages, than which nothing can be conceived more close und squalid and obscure. Here, during the days of business, the sound of the hammer and the file never... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1881 - 604 pages
...advanced, leaving behind you long lines of ' little dingy tenements, with infants lying about the road, yon expected every moment to emerge into some streets,...branched out a number of smaller alleys, or rather narrow 190 passages, than which nothing can be conceived more close and squalid and obscure. Here, during... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1900 - 1724 pages
...of the town in which were situate the coarse and grimy shops, though formed by houses of agi cater elevation than the preceding, were equally narrow,...obscure. Here, during the days of business, the sound of tho hammer and the file never ceased, amid gutters of abomination, and piles of foulness, and stagnant... | |
| Wilfrid Meynell - Prime ministers - 1903 - 362 pages
...absence, and which Disraeli the politician was to do so much to foster, was not yet brought to birth : " There were no public buildings of any sort ; no churches,...the days of business, the sound of the hammer and file never ceased, amid gutters of abomination and piles of foulness and stagnant pools of filth ;... | |
| Wilfrid Meynell - Diaries - 1903 - 640 pages
...birth: "There were no public buildings of any sort; no churches, chapels, town-hall, institute, theater; and the principal streets in the heart of the town...the days of business, the sound of the hammer and file never ceased, amid gutters of abomination and piles of foulness and stagnant pools of filth; reservoirs... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - Great Britain - 1904 - 642 pages
...aristocracy ; it is privileged, but it does something for its privileges, it is distinguished from the mam body not merely by name. It is the most knowing class...business, the sound of the hammer and the file never cease, amid gutters of abomination and piles of foulness and stagnant pools of filth ; reservoirs of... | |
| 1914 - 136 pages
...some correspondence in their size and comfort to the considerable population swarming and busied about you. Nothing of the kind. There were no public buildings...business, the sound of the hammer and the file never cease, amid gutters of abomination and piles of foulness and stagnant pools of filth ; reservoirs of... | |
| Sir Geoffrey Gilbert Butler - Conservatism - 1914 - 184 pages
...seldom exceed four days of labour in the week. On Sundays the masters begin to drink." *•*•*• " At every fourth or fifth house, alleys seldom above a yard wide, and streaming with filth, opened on the street. . . . Here during the days of business the sound of the hammer and the file never ceased,... | |
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