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"American Notes: Chapter 18"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 18 — Concluding Remarks There are many passages in this book, where I have been at some pains to resist the temptation of troubling my readers with my own deductions and conclusions: preferring that they shou...

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"American Notes: Chapter 17"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 17 — Slavery The upholders of slavery in America — of the atrocities of which system, I shall not write one word for which I have not had ample proof and warrant — may be divided into three great classes....

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"American Notes: Chapter 16"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 16 — The Passage Home I never had so much interest before, and very likely I shall never have so much interest again, in the state of the wind, as on the long-looked-for morning of Tuesday the Seventh of June...

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"American Notes: Chapter 15"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 15 — In Canada; Toronto; Kingston; Montreal; Quebec; St. John’s. In the United States again; Lebanon; the Shaker Village; and West Point. I wish to abstain from instituting any comparison, or drawing any pa...

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"American Notes: Chapter 14"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 14 — Return to Cincinnati. a Stage-Coach ride from that city to Columbus, and thence to Sandusky. so, by Lake Erie, to the Falls of Niagara As I had a desire to travel through the interior of the state of Ohi...

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"American Notes: Chapter 13"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 13 — A Jaunt to the Looking-Glass Prairie and Back I may premise that the word Prairie is variously pronounced paraaer, parearer, paroarer. The latter mode of pronunciation is perhaps the most in favour. We...

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"American Notes: Chapter 12"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 12 — From Cincinnati to Louisville in another Western Steamboat; and from Louisville to St. Louis in another. St. Louis Leaving Cincinnati at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, we embarked for Louisville in th...

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"American Notes: Chapter 11"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 11 — From Pittsburg to Cincinnati in a Western Steamboat. Cincinnati The Messenger was one among a crowd of high-pressure steamboats, clustered together by a wharf-side, which, looked down upon from the risin...

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"American Notes: Chapter 10"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 10 — Some further Account of the Canal Boat, its Domestic Economy, and its Passengers. Journey to Pittsburg across the Alleghany Mountains. Pittsburg As it continued to rain most perseveringly, we all remaine...

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"American Notes: Chapter 9"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 9 — A Night Steamer on the Potomac River. Virginia Road, and a Black Driver. Richmond. Baltimore. The Harrisburg Mail, and a Glimpse of the City. A Canal Boat We were to proceed in the first instance by steam...

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"American Notes: Chapter 8"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 8 — Washington: The Legislature and The President’s House We left Philadelphia by steamboat, at six o’clock one very cold morning, and turned our faces towards Washington. In the course of this day’s j...

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"American Notes: Chapter 7"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 7 — Philadelphia, and its Solitary prison The journey from New York to Philadelphia, is made by railroad, and two ferries; and usually occupies between five and six hours. It was a fine evening when we were p...

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"American Notes: Chapter 6"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 6 — New York The beautiful metropolis of America is by no means so clean a city as Boston, but many of its streets have the same characteristics; except that the houses are not quite so fresh-coloured, the si...

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"American Notes: Chapter 5"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 5 — Worcester. The Connecticut River. Hartford. New Haven. To New York Leaving Boston on the afternoon of Saturday the fifth of February, we proceeded by another railroad to Worcester: a pretty New England to...

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"American Notes: Chapter 4"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 4 — An american railroad: Lowell and its factory system Before leaving Boston, I devoted one day to an excursion to Lowell. I assign a separate chapter to this visit; not because I am about to describe it at...

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"American Notes: Chapter 3"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 3 — Boston In all the public establishments of America, the utmost courtesy prevails. Most of our Departments are susceptible of considerable improvement in this respect, but the Custom-house above all others...

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"American Notes: Chapter 2"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 2 — The Passage Out We all dined together that day; and a rather formidable party we were: no fewer than eighty-six strong. The vessel being pretty deep in the water, with all her coals on board and so many p...

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"American Notes: Chapter 1"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter 1 — Going away I shall never forget the one-fourth serious and three-fourths comical astonishment, with which, on the morning of the third of January eighteen-hundred-and-forty-two, I opened the door of, and...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 36"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Thirty-Six: Conclusion I HAVE now arrived at the close of my little history. The events which succeeded the famous Revolution of one thousand six hundred and eighty-eight, would neither be easi...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 35"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Thirty-Five: James the Second KING JAMES THE SECOND was a man so very disagreeable, that even the best of historians has favoured his brother Charles, as becoming, by comparison, quite a pleasa...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 34"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Thirty-Four: Charles the Secon ENGLAND UNDER CHARLES THE SECOND, CALLED THE MERRY MONARCH THERE never were such profligate times in England as under Charles the Second. Whenever you see his po...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 33"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Thirty-Three: Oliver Cromwell BEFORE sunset on the memorable day on which King Charles the First was executed, the House of Commons passed an act declaring it treason in any one to proclaim the...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 32"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Thirty-Two: Charles the First BABY CHARLES became KING CHARLES THE FIRST, in the twenty-fifth year of his age. Unlike his father, he was usually amiable in his private character, and grave and...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 31"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Thirty-One: James the First 'OUR cousin of Scotland' was ugly, awkward, and shuffling both in mind and person. His tongue was much too large for his mouth, his legs were much too weak for his b...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 30"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Thirty: Queen Elizabeth THERE was great rejoicing all over the land when the Lords of the Council went down to Hatfield, to hail the Princess Elizabeth as the new Queen of England. Weary of the...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 29"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Twenty-Nine: Queen Mary THE Duke of Northumberland was very anxious to keep the young King's death a secret, in order that he might get the two Princesses into his power. But, the Princess Mary...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 28"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Twenty-Eight: Edward the Sixth HENRY THE EIGHTH had made a will, appointing a council of sixteen to govern the kingdom for his son while he was under age (he was now only ten years old), and an...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 27"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Twenty-Seven: Henry the Eighth ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE EIGHTH, CALLED BLUFF KING HAL AND BURLY KING HARRY PART THE FIRST WE now come to King Henry the Eighth, whom it has been too mu...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 26"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Twenty-Six: Henry the Seventh KING HENRY THE SEVENTH did not turn out to be as fine a fellow as the nobility and people hoped, in the first joy of their deliverance from Richard the Third. He w...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 25"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Twenty-Five: Richard the Third KING RICHARD THE THIRD was up betimes in the morning, and went to Westminster Hall. In the Hall was a marble seat, upon which he sat himself down between two grea...

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"A Child’s History: Chapter 24"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Twenty-Four: Edward the Fifth THE late King's eldest son, the Prince of Wales, called EDWARD after him, was only thirteen years of age at his father's death. He was at Ludlow Castle with his un...

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"A Child’s History: Chapter 23"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Twenty-Three: Edward the Fourth KING EDWARD THE FOURTH was not quite twenty-one years of age when he took that unquiet seat upon the throne of England. The Lancaster party, the Red Roses, were...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 22"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Twenty-Two: Henry the Sixth PART THE FIRST IT had been the wish of the late King, that while his infant son KING HENRY THE SIXTH, at this time only nine months old, was under age, the Duke of...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 21"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Twenty-One: Henry the Fifth FIRST PART THE Prince of Wales began his reign like a generous and honest man. He set the young Earl of March free; he restored their estates and their honours to t...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 20"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Twenty: Henry the Fourth ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE FOURTH, CALLED BOLINGBROKE DURING the last reign, the preaching of Wickliffe against the pride and cunning of the Pope and all his men, had mad...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 19"

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By: Charles Dickens Nineteen: Richard the Second RICHARD, son of the Black Prince, a boy eleven years of age, succeeded to the Crown under the title of King Richard the Second. The whole English nation were ready to admir...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 18"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter: Eighteen Edward the Third ROGER MORTIMER, the Queen's lover (who escaped to France in the last chapter), was far from profiting by the examples he had had of the fate of favourites. Having, th...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 17"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Seventeen: Edward the Second KING Edward the Second, the first Prince of Wales, was twenty-three years old when his father died. There was a certain favourite of his, a young man from Gascony,...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 16"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Sixteen: Edward the First ENGLAND UNDER EDWARD THE FIRST, CALLED LONGSHANKS IT was now the year of our Lord one thousand two hundred and seventy-two; and Prince Edward, the heir to the throne,...

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"A Child’s History of England: Chapter 15"

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By: Charles Dickens Chapter Fifteen: Henry the Third ENGLAND UNDER HENRY THE THIRD, CALLED, OF WINCHESTER IF any of the English Barons remembered the murdered Arthur's sister, Eleanor the fair maid of Brittany, shut up i...

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