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American Notes for General Circulation - Page 293
by Charles Dickens - 1842 - 306 pages
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Works, Volume 1

Charles Dickens - 1842 - 646 pages
...meals. The love of trade is a reason why the literature of America is to remain for ever unprotected : "For we are a trading people , and don't care for...characteristics are strongly presented at every turn, fall in the stranger's view. But the foul growth of America has a more tangled root than this; and...
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A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United ...

Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 212 pages
...meals. The love of trade is a reason why the literature of America is to remain for ever unprotected: 'for we are a trading people, and don't care for poetry,'...fade before the stern utilitarian joys of trade." Corroding care follows them even on board the steam ships,* where " all the passengers are very dismal,...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 40

1842 - 468 pages
...meal:. The love of trade is a reason why the literature of America is to remain for ever unprotected ; ' for we are a trading people, and don't care for poetry,'...though we do, by the way, profess to be very proud of oar poets ; while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation, and wholesome fancies, must fade...
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Works of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens - 1866 - 472 pages
...ineals. The love of trade is a reason why the literature of America is to remain for ever unprotected : " For we are a trading people, and don't care for poetry...very proud of our poets : while healthful amusements, "heerful means of recreation, and wholesome fancies, must fade before the stern utilitarian joys of...
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The Works of Charles Dickens: Pickwick papers (1873)

Charles Dickens - 1877 - 398 pages
...meals. The love of trade is a reason why the literature of America is to remain forever unprotected : " For we are a trading people, and don't care for poetry:" though we do, by-the-way, profess to be very proud of our poets ; while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation,...
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Pictures from Italy: American Notes

Charles Dickens - 1880 - 496 pages
...meals. The love of trade is a reason why the literature of America is to remain for ever unprotected : " For we are a trading people, and don't care for poetry...wholesome fancies, must fade before the stern utilitarian joya of trade. These three characteristics are strongly presented at every turn, full in the stranger's...
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Works, Volume 11

Charles Dickens - 1884 - 872 pages
...The love of trade is the reason why the literature of America is to remain for ever unprotected : " For we are a trading people, and don't care for poetry ; " though we do, by the way, profess tc be very proud of bur poets : while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation, and wholesome...
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The Adventures of Oliver Twist: Also, Pictures from Italy and American Notes ...

Charles Dickens - 1885 - 874 pages
...The love of trade is the reason why the literature of America is to remain for ever unprotected : * For we are a trading people, and don't care for poetry ; " though we do, by the way, profess tc be very proud of our poets : while healthful amusements, cheerful means of recreation, and wholesome...
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Martin Chuzzlewit, Volume 2

Charles Dickens - 1908 - 644 pages
...meals. The love of trade is a reason why the literature of America is to remain for ever unprotected : "For we are a trading people, and don't care for poetry,"...stranger's view. But the foul growth of America has a more entangled root than this; and it strikes its fibres, deep in its licentious Press Schools may be erected,...
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The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four [i.e. Thirty-eight ..., Volume 28

Charles Dickens - 1868 - 570 pages
...meals. The love of trade is a reason why the literature of America is to remain for ever unprotected : " For we are a trading people, and don't care for poetry : " though we t/o, by the way, profess to be very proud of our poets : while healthful amusements, cheerful means...
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