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Published May 25, 2000 by Classic Books.
Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People (Collected Works of Charles Dickens)
Charles Dickens: Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People (Collected Works of Charles Dickens) (Hardcover, 2000, Classic Books)
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How much is conveyed in those two short words - 'The Parish!' And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future.
How much is conveyed in those two short words - 'The Parish!' And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with small earnings, and a large family, just manages to live on from hand to mouth, and to procure food from day to day; he has barely sufficient to satisfy the present cravings of nature, and can take no heed of the future.