 | William Tait (Surgeon) - 1840 - 298 σελίδες
...day nor night for weeks and perhaps months together, he can form his own idea as to their comfort or appearance ; for it would be offensive to the feelings of humanity to attempt to describe them. The following is a faithful picture of what the author has himself witnessed, and is calculated to... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1842 - 214 σελίδες
...day nor night, for weeks or perhaps months together, he can form his own idea as to their comfort or appearance; for it would be offensive to the feelings...visit one of its inmates who was dying ; — and, a« I wish you, for the reason which I shall assign immediately, to have a full impression of the horrors... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1842 - 188 σελίδες
...day nor night, for weeks or perhaps months together, he can form his own idea as to their comfort or appearance; for it would be offensive to the feelings of humanity to attempt to describe them."—Then there follows a statement of what was witnessed by the author himself, in one of the... | |
 | 1843 - 172 σελίδες
...day nor night, for weeks or perhaps months together, he can form his own idea as to their comfort or appearance ; for it would be offensive to the feelings...in one of the lowest description of brothels, when ho was professionally called, on a Saturday night, in December, 1839, to visit one of its inmates,... | |
 | Ian McCormick - 2000 - 248 σελίδες
...day or night, for weeks or perhaps months together, he can form his own idea as to their comfort or appearance; for it would be offensive to the feelings of humanity to attempt to describe them.'—Then there follows a statement of what was witnessed by the author himself, in one of the... | |
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... not sufficient to cover their nakedness, far less to protect them from the cold. Their clothes, if they have any, are seldom cleaned ; and, when the reader is informed that they are never changed, day nor night, for weeks or perhaps months together,... 