Edinburgh Journal, No. 437, by Various

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Title: Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852

Author: Various

Editor: Robert Chambers and William Chambers

Release Date: July 23, 2006 [EBook #18898]

Language: English

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CHAMBERS' EDINBURGH JOURNAL

CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM AND ROBERT CHAMBERS, EDITORS OF 'CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE,' 'CHAMBERS'S EDUCATIONAL COURSE,' &c.

No. 437. NEW SERIES. SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1852. PRICE 1-1/2d.

LONDON CROSSING-SWEEPERS.

There is no occupation in life, be it ever so humble, which is justly worthy of contempt, if by it a man is enabled to administer to his necessities without becoming a burden to others, or a plague to them by the parade of shoeless feet, fluttering rags, and a famished face. In the multitudinous drama of life, which on the wide theatre of the metropolis is ever enacting with so much intense earnestness, there is, and from the very nature of things there always must be, a numerous class of supernumeraries, who from time to time, by the force of varying circumsta

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