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- Author: John Ashton
- Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
- ISBN-10: 0548801282
- ISBN-13: 9780548801284
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Excerpt from The Dawn of the Xixth Century in England: A Social Sketch of the Times
That Sir Walter Scott, when he called his novel "Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since," thought that the time had come, when the generation, then living, should be presented with a page of history, which would bring to their remembrance the manners and customs of their grandfathers, must be my excuse for this book.
For, never, in the world's history, has there been such a change in things social, as since the commencement of the Nineteenth Century; it has been a quiet revolution - a good exemplar of which may be found in the Frontispiece, which is a type of things past, never to be recalled. The Watchman has long since given place to the Police; the climbing boy, to chimney-sweeping on a more scientific plan; and no more is "Saloop" vended at street corners; even the drummer-boys are things of the past, only fit for a Museum - and it is of these things that this book treats.
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- Author: John Ashton
- Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
- ISBN-10: 0548801282
- ISBN-13: 9780548801284
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Excerpt from The Dawn of the Xixth Century in England: A Social Sketch of the Times
That Sir Walter Scott, when he called his novel "Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since," thought that the time had come, when the generation, then living, should be presented with a page of history, which would bring to their remembrance the manners and customs of their grandfathers, must be my excuse for this book.
For, never, in the world's history, has there been such a change in things social, as since the commencement of the Nineteenth Century; it has been a quiet revolution - a good exemplar of which may be found in the Frontispiece, which is a type of things past, never to be recalled. The Watchman has long since given place to the Police; the climbing boy, to chimney-sweeping on a more scientific plan; and no more is "Saloop" vended at street corners; even the drummer-boys are things of the past, only fit for a Museum - and it is of these things that this book treats.
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