475 pages
English language
Published Nov. 25, 1850 by DeWolfe, Fiske, & Co..
Sketches by "Boz" illustrative of every-day life and every-day people
With illustrations
Charles Dickens: Sketches by "Boz" illustrative of every-day life and every-day people (1850, DeWolfe, Fiske, & Co.)
- OCLC Number:
- 319431103
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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.