He tells us we're hopeless, the worst class he ever had for First Communion but as sure as God made little apples he'll make Catholics of us, he'll beat the idler out of us and the Sanctifying Grace into us.
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London still houses the loungers and idlers of empire, growing rich from the spoils of exploitation.
For figures such as historian Niall Ferguson, the wellbeing agenda is an example of Europeans as "the idlers of the world".
'London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained" was what Sherlock Holmes's companion, Dr Watson, thought of the capital.
Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
It may be that Europeans are, as Ferguson believes, somehow decadent now because they believe less — they are "the idlers of the world," he declares — but they are certainly no poorer for it.
It may be that Europeans are, as Ferguson believes, somehow decadent now because they believe less they are "the idlers of the world," he declares but they are certainly no poorer for it.
It isn't a coincidence, he says, that the decline of religion in Europe has led to Europeans becoming the "idlers of the world" (while the more religious US has remained hard-working).
At the beginning of "A Study in Scarlet", he describes the city as "London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained".A century on, the attitudes expressed by Conan Doyle are self-evidently racist.
