What carried him into the Fulham Road and westwards as far as the Workhouse tower and the corner of Alexandra Grove?
From the upper open galleries of the Workhouse one or two old men and old women in uniform looked down indifferently upon the free world which they had left for ever.
At the top of Elm Park Gardens, instead of turning east towards Piccadilly he turned west in the direction of the Workhouse tower.
When he had passed under the Workhousetower he came to a side street which, according to Haim's description of the neighbourhood, ought to have been Alexandra Grove.
To the east was a high defile of hospitals, and to the west the Workhouse tower faintly imprinted itself on the sombre sky.
In an introduction to From Workhouse to Westminster, a life of Will Crooks, Gilbert expressed a good deal of his own political philosophy.
To be reared in a workhouse and then to leave a freehold home and land to one's children may not seem much to most people but still out of that my sons can build again.
If husband and wife went together, they would be separated at theworkhouse door.
And so systematic are the rules and regulations of the house, so many and so various are the lady's keys, that one finds one's self wondering if the rules of a prison or a workhouse can be more strict.
And following the line of reasoning, not of the highest order, which suggests that if one cannot be happy one had better try and be good, Palestrina always visits her old women at the workhouse on these days.
Stephens was sent by the Board of Health to examine the Workhouse there.
I find by the newspapers of the time that Primate Boulter acted with much generosity, especially in the second year of the famine, feeding many thousands at the workhouse at his own expense.
The Workhouse was described as a pesthouse, and the guardians in terror had abandoned it.
The doctor's third case happened at midnight, being called on duty to the workhouse at that hour.
This same priest administered in one day the last Sacrament to thirty-three young persons in the Workhouse of Westport; and of these there were not more than two or three alive next morning.
We had no additional fever hospitals; the Workhouse was over full, and those poor creatures perished miserably in the streets and alleys.
But the number of workhouse inmates got thin as well as the paupers, and the Board were delighted.
Ah, sir," said he, "I wish I were no nearer the workhouse nor you be!
In a costly palace Youth his temples hides With a new devised peruke that reaches to his sides; In a wretched workhouse Age's crown is bare, With a few thin locks just to fence out the cold air.
In a costly palace Youth is still carest By a train of attendants which laugh at my young Lord's jest; In a wretched workhouse the contrary prevails: Does Age begin to prattle?
Overseer of the Poor Is setting the Workhouse Clock.
Read right this text, and do not further search To make a Sunday Workhouse of the Church.
Seldom is the mortar, lime, or plaster brought to the workhouse without it.
The training might also be coupled with that of the "schools of industry" (workhouse schools, as described by Locke [R.
Workhouse schools and "schools of industry" also were used to provide for orphans and the children of paupers (p.
Only workhouse schools were provided for by the general taxation of all property.
Show how tax-supported workhouseschools represented, for England, the first step in public-school maintenance.
In the eighteenth century different English church parishes began to set up workhouse schools of various types, and to maintain these out of parish "rates.
This attitude is well shown for England by the fact that not a single law relating to the education of the people, aside from workhouse schools, was enacted by Parliament during the whole of the eighteenth century.
The Major's gloom had become terrible; he had even made remarks upon a choice between a workhouse and a razor.
Certainly the three of them had between two and three shillings, all told; there was no actual need of a workhouse just yet, but naturally it was wished to spend as little as possible.
At Belfast there were forty cases in the workhouse before there was one in the town.
In the Exeter workhouse there were eighteen deaths from dysentery in the end of the year, although there is nothing said of cholera, which caused only 44 deaths in the whole city.
His fifty-one cases are most valuable illustrations of the perennial fever in the crowded parts of London: Case 1 is of a man aged forty who had occasion to visit a miserable crowded workhouse in Spitalfields.
The first cases brought to St Peter's Hospital, which was the general workhouse of the city, were of wretched vagrants found ill by the wayside or abandoned in hovels.
The relief was inseparable from the workhouse and the gruel; and that frightened people.
No more than two months ago, I was not only my own master, but everybody else's, so far as the porochial workhouse was concerned, and now!
The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not.
Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, deprived of their situations, were gradually reduced to great indigence and misery, and finally became paupers in that very same workhouse in which they had once lorded it over others.
Along this same footpath, Oliver well-remembered he had trotted beside Mr. Bumble, when he first carried him to the workhouse from the farm.
The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in 'the house' who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need.
The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouseauthorities to the parish authorities.
Fleury It should be mentioned that the cure of Verrieres, an old man of ninety, who owed to the bracing mountain air an iron constitution and an iron character, had the right to visit the prison, the hospital and the workhouse at any hour.
Valenod, the fortunate Director of the workhouse of Verrieres, this terrace can brook comparison with that of Saint-Germain en Laye.
He would have obtained powerful support against the mayor but the elections might supervene, and it was only too evident that the directorship of the workhouse was inconsistent with voting on the wrong side.
About three o'clock these gentlemen went to finish their inspection of the workhouse and then returned to the prison.
Appert, who had two days previously managed to find his way not only into the prison and workhouse of Verrieres, but also into the hospital, which was gratuitously conducted by the mayor and the principal proprietors of the district.
Will you swear to me," said Madame de Renal quite gravely, "never to quarrel with the director of the workhouse about these letters?
In the Liverpool Workhouse the state of things was no worse than in many others, and in many respects it was not so bad.
Hear the testimony of one of the workhouse officials to the writer, more than twenty-five years after, when the question, "Do you remember Miss Jones?
A chance visitor to the Liverpool Workhouse on Brownlow Hill might be lost in wonder at its vastness, as he looked at its streets of large buildings and was told of its more than four thousand inhabitants.
The sick and helpless were entrusted to the care of women who, being paupers themselves, and of a low class, and being for the most part in the workhouse through loss of character, were found to be almost incapable of training.
Who does not know the anxious look with which a well-fed pet dog will dig a hole and bury a bone that he does not happen to want, as if he had an old age in the workhouse to dread?
As likely as not he will have to go to the workhousebefore he has done.
The workhouse may take her--or a charitable asylum may take her.
