... be all-embracing. Suppose, for instance, that a man were to start to walk from the north of London to the south, and were to pick his way through the filthiest slums of Soho and Drury-lane, and were to print an account of his journey, would that be accepted ...

... homes, machinery not having yet penetrated into Silesia. The overseer, a brutal fellow called Pfeifer, treats them like dogs, picking holes in every yarn so as to cut down the wages. One after the other they cringe to him, asking for a trifling advance, declaring ...

... disposed of. One night, I shall never forget it, I bad been to the opera of San Carlos, and was picking my way to my lodging through the intolerable filth and garbage of the streets of Lisbon, defending myself from the dogs and rats by which they were then ...

... a heavy iron chain round the neck, wandering about the town in quest of food to satisfy the cravings of nature, picking up bones and garbage of every description from the dung-heaps, snails from the fields, and flogs from the ditches, and. when the tide ...