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1851; Or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to enjoy themselves, and to see the Great Exhibition.Mayhew, Henry

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1851; Or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to enjoy themselves, and to see the Great Exhibition.

Name: 1851; Or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to enjoy themselves, and to see the Great Exhibition.
Author: Mayhew, Henry

Mayhew, Henry

Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction

For many days before the “shilling people” were admitted to the
building, the great topic of conversation was the probable behaviour of
the people. Would they come sober? will they destroy the things? will
they want to cut their initials, or scratch their names on the panes of
the glass lighthouses? But they have surpassed in decorum the hopes of
their well-wishers. The fact is, the Great Exhibition is to them more of
a school than a show. The working-man has often little book-learning,
but of such knowledge as constitutes the education of life—viz., the
understanding of human motives, and the acquisition of power over
natural forces, so as to render them subservient to human happiness—of
such knowledge as this, we repeat, the working-man has generally a
greater share than those who are said to belong to the “superior
classes.” Hence it is, that what was a matter of tedium, and became
ultimately a mere lounge, for gentlefolks, is used as a place of
instruction by the people.

We have been thus prolix on the classes attending the Great Exhibition,
because it is the influence that this institution is likely to exercise
upon labour which constitutes its most interesting and valuable feature.
If we really desire the improvement of our social state, (and surely we
are far from perfection yet,) we must address ourselves to the elevation
of the people; and it is because the Great Exhibition is fitted to
become a special instrument towards this end, that it forms one of the
most remarkable and hopeful characteristics of our time.

[Illustration:

  _Odds & Ends, in, out, & about, The Great Exhibition of 1851.
  Pub. by D. Bogue 86 Fleet Street_
]

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                             CHAPTER XVII.

                 “But if Misfortune’s han?
                  We plunge an’ feel her smartin’ wan’,
                  Let us wi’ fortitude withstan’,
                               The lash extended.
                  As a’ things come by Heaven’s comman’,
                               An’ whea can mend it.”
                  _A New Year’s Epistle, by John Stagg._


ALREADY had the customary advertisement in the daily papers announced to
the world that—

            THE YOUNG LADIES OF PARTHENON HOUSE, WIMBLEDON
            COMMON, will resume their studies on the 1st of
            August, 1851,—

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Opening the text

1851; Or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to enjoy themselves, and to see the Great Exhibition.Mayhew, Henry

General

1851; Or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to enjoy themselves, and to see the Great Exhibition.

Mayhew, Henry

Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) -- Fiction; London (England) -- Fiction

For many days before the “shilling people” were admitted to the
building, the great topic of conversation was the probable behaviour of
the people. Would they come sober? will they destroy the things? will
they want to cut their initials, or scratch their names on the panes of
the glass lighthouses? But they have surpassed in decorum the hopes of
their well-wishers. The fact is, the Great Exhibition is to them more of
a school than a show. The working-man has often little book-learning,
but of such knowledge as constitutes the education of life—viz., the
understanding of human motives, and the acquisition of power over
natural forces, so as to render them subservient to human happiness—of
such knowledge as this, we repeat, the working-man has generally a
greater share than those who are said to belong to the “superior
classes.” Hence it is, that what was a matter of tedium, and became
ultimately a mere lounge, for gentlefolks, is used as a place of
instruction by the people.

We have been thus prolix on the classes attending the Great Exhibition,
because it is the influence that this institution is likely to exercise
upon labour which constitutes its most interesting and valuable feature.
If we really desire the improvement of our social state, (and surely we
are far from perfection yet,) we must address ourselves to the elevation
of the people; and it is because the Great Exhibition is fitted to
become a special instrument towards this end, that it forms one of the
most remarkable and hopeful characteristics of our time.

[Illustration:

  _Odds & Ends, in, out, & about, The Great Exhibition of 1851.
  Pub. by D. Bogue 86 Fleet Street_
]

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                             CHAPTER XVII.

                 “But if Misfortune’s han?
                  We plunge an’ feel her smartin’ wan’,
                  Let us wi’ fortitude withstan’,
                               The lash extended.
                  As a’ things come by Heaven’s comman’,
                               An’ whea can mend it.”
                  _A New Year’s Epistle, by John Stagg._


ALREADY had the customary advertisement in the daily papers announced to
the world that—

            THE YOUNG LADIES OF PARTHENON HOUSE, WIMBLEDON
            COMMON, will resume their studies on the 1st of
            August, 1851,—

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

1851; Or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to enjoy themselves, and to see the Great Exhibition.

1851; Or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to enjoy themselves, and to see the Great Exhibition.

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