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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1856 Excerpt: ...ever knew. This, Sir, is my grievance; this extraordinary neatness is so very troublesome and disgusting to me, that I protest I had rather lodge in a carrier's inn, or take up my abode with the horses in the stables. v "It must be confessed, that a due regard to neatness and cleanliness is as necessary to be observed in bur habitations as our persons; but though I should not choose to have my hands begrimed like a chimney-sweeper's, I. would not, like the superstitious Mahometans, wash them six times a day; and though I should be loath to roll in a pigsty, yet I do not like to have my house rendered useless to me under the pretence of keeping it clean. "For my own part, I cannot see the difference between having a house that is always dirty, and a house that is always to be cleaned. I could very willingly compound to be washed out of my home, with other masters of families, every Saturday night; but my wife is so very notable, that the same cleansing work must be repeated every day in the week. All the morning long, I am sure to be entertained with the domestic concert of.scrubbing the floors, scouring the irons, and beating the carpets; and I am constantly hunted from room to room, while one is to be dusted, another dry-rubbed, another washed, and another run over with a dry mop. Thus, indeed," I may be said to live in continual dirtiness, that my house may be clean; for during these nice operations every apartment is stowed with soap, brickdust, sand, scrubbing-brushes, hair-brooms, rag-mops, and dish-clouts. "You may suppose that the greatest care is taken to prevent the least speck of dirt from soiling the floors. For this reason all that come to our house, besides the ceremony of scraping at the door, are obliged to rub their shoes...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781231125991
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 112
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1231125993
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 213 gr


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