# Household words, No. 8, May 18, 1850

Author: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 [Editor]

Genre: English literature -- Periodicals

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78173

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Household+words%2C+No.+8%2C+May+18%2C+1850+Dickens&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

He is a ‘Household Word.’ We all know something of him. The amount of money he annually diverts from wholesome and useful purposes in the United Kingdom, would be a set-off against the Window Tax. He is one of the most shameless frauds and impositions of this time. In his idleness, his mendacity, and the immeasurable harm he does to the deserving,—dirtying the stream of true benevolence, and muddling the brains of foolish justices, with inability to distinguish between the base coin of distress, and the true currency we have always among us,—he is more worthy of Norfolk Island than three-fourths of the worst characters who are sent there. Under any rational system, he would have been sent...

## Chapters

- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-8-may-18-1850-78173/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-8-may-18-1850-78173/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-8-may-18-1850-78173/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-8-may-18-1850-78173/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-8-may-18-1850-78173/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/household-words-no-8-may-18-1850-78173/chapters/6/index.md)