A Home Tour Through The Manufacturing Districts Of England In The Summer Of 1835 Etc

Author : George Head
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ISBN 13 : 9781331994473
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England written by George Head and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-26 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England: In the in the Summer of 1835 From the conviction that no other country can yield to an Englishman more rational grounds of interest than the British dominions, I derive confidence that, in laying before the public the result of a desultory ramble through the Manufacturing Districts, the subject will in part plead for its imperfect execution. Chance and inclination in a great measure contributed to hasten or retard my departure from the several places I visited, so that the importance of objects described is seldom measured by the opportunities of observation; now and then I remained in a small country town, or in a village on the seashore, for a week - sometimes from a large city flitted in a day; in the great town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for instance, I tarried two days; had I staid long enough to give a detailed account, I might have been there still. Always a stranger, moving about from place to place at my leisure, seeing with my own eyes, neither troubling myself with the opinions nor prejudices of others, I took no indirect means to obtain information when not readily granted; on the contrary, I never entertained a desire, unconnected with grounds of public interest, to gratify private curiosity, or to inquire further than, as one of the public, anxious for the prosperity of my country, I had a reasonable claim to explore. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.