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...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania St... ...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...ast upon the ceiling. At the same time the door entirely disappears, and a new one is opened in the floor. Then I begin to comprehend that the state r... ...e little Scotch lady be fore mentioned, on her way to join her husband at New York, who had settled there three years before. Sec ondly and thirdly,... ...ttle Scotch lady be fore mentioned, on her way to join her husband at New York, who had settled there three years before. Sec ondly and thirdly, an ... ..., have been educated at this same school. Whatever the defects of American universities may be, they dissemi nate no prejudices; rear no bigots; dig ... ...reared, by scores upon American Notes – Dickens 260 scores of thousands; colleges may thrive, churches may be crammed, temperance may be diffused, a...