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共 99 段- Nowhere are these hopeful indications more manifest than in
- In addition to these larger instrumentalities for the circul
- Another agency contributing largely to the prevention of cri
- Two Bills prepared by this Association, one for the protecti
- Great and encouraging as are the results effected by these
- It is no easy matter, however, to classify the different kin
- To the latter part of the above classification, I regret to
- 2. The untrustworthy; as the drunken, the idle, and the dish
- ii. “Tail-Buzzers,” those who dive into coat-pockets for sne
- Now each and all of these are distinct species of the genus,
- Far as we can trace the history of society we discover no st
- Throughout the countries of the East, upon the history of wh
- In some instances, indeed, there occurred in Athens what occ
- The edicts against prostitution increased in severity under
- In proportion as the intercourse of the sexes is loose is th
- The dirty, lazy, and dull people of the Fantee coast, near D
- The native inhabitants of Australia are generally nomadic. T
- Though polygamy or concubinage has been practised in New Zea
- Marriage under such circumstances could not be looked upon a
- A man desiring to divorce his wife, had to do no more than b
- It has already been shown that, when married, the woman beco
- Transferring our attention to another part of the South-Amer
- This, nevertheless, in reality is no argument for those who
- The state of morals among the Sea Dyaks, or dwellers on the
- Polygamy is universally permitted among the Bugis of Celebes
- Among the poorer classes the women perform the drudgery of t
- In various parts of India, different customs of marriage pre
- Whether the Hindus and other inhabitants of India are remark
- Although, when a plurality of husbands is adopted, they are
- A man finding his wife in the act of adultery may kill her w
- The condition of women in Japan varies with different classe
- The Muslim lawgiver was wiser than the priestly legislators
- The dance of the Ghawazee was, to the Egyptians, what an ope
- In Arabia we find a system of manners at once unique and bea
- Each family deputes an agent to promote the satisfactory set
- The great check upon polygamy is, as we have noticed, the co
- There is apparently no check upon this calling, unless the w
- Iceland and Greenland, differing in their people, their fort
- In 1837 the government of Sweden, finding that to prohibit p
- But while the woman who lost herself was forgiven by the civ
- The city of Rhodes appears to have been another city of Euro
- In that country we have to divide class from class before we
- 5. When a woman discovers herself to be infected she must in
- Thirdly, there are houses where the girls neither live nor s
- The returns go far to evidence the evil effects of sedentary
- All French writers have the profoundest horror of our social
- It is true that a large number of milliners, dress-makers, f
- The analysis of the return of the coroners’ inquests held in
- On approaching the play-house, you observe prostitutes stand
- One of the houses a few doors off contained a woman well kno
- When we resumed our tour of inspection, the sergeant, having
- I have already described the condition of low and abandoned
- “At first I protested and held out, but at last I gave in to
- Parent Duchatelet discourses at some length on this subject,
- Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases w
- “Soon after I became unfortunate, and had to part with the r
- 56 restored at Liverpool.
- This is the main source of the habitual felons of the metrop
- There are numbers of young women of 18 years of age and upwa
- These depredations are always done at night, by experienced
- Information was given to Bow-street police office by the sol
- Leaving Oxford Street we went along Holborn to Chancery Lane
- “Other houses of a less reputable character were very numero
- These boys in most cases confine themselves to stealing from
- The older female thieves generally look cool and weary, the
- On passing through Flower-and-Dean Street we saw a group of
- “This was shortly before Christmas, 1840. During my imprison
- These robberies are detected in various ways. For example, s
- We went into Evans’s lodging-house, noted as a haunt for thi
- It frequently occurs that a thief enters a warehouse, or lar
- Meanwhile the housemaid and her friend had adjourned to one
- “My brother next to him in age did not follow his bad course
- “I was connected with two pals in another burglary in a dwel
- Sometimes these girls belong to the lower orders of society,
- These belong to the same class of degraded women who walk th
- The rough-looking prostitutes of this class seldom attend th
- “About two years ago I left school, and commenced to work as
- “During the day some of the men of our tribe went about the
- The form of the cheque is seldom forged; it is generally the
- He may not know where to get the receipt stamp, and one of t
- The majority of these residencies existed only in the imagin
- In the last report of the Poor Law Board (that for 1860) it
- Foremost among beggars, by right of pretension to blighted p
- When, as sometimes happened, ladies paid a visit to Lieut. T
- But the face of the beggar is a marvellous exhibition! His a
- I was walking in a high-road, when I was accosted by a fello
- “SIR,--Permit me to make you a request, which is, not to pre
- “I had only taken a penny all day, and I had had no breakfas
- Various kinds of cripples are still to be found, begging in
- This is perhaps the most numerous class of beggars in London
- “On further investigation We find his loss exceeds £70. and
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- ⁂ The counties printed _black_ are those in which the number
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- “And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, T
- p. 445 "Brass Rods &c" changed to "Brass Rods &c."