My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagination. They can examine for themselves whether there has been anything in the public career of that country during these past eight years, or whether there is anything in its present position, at home or abroad, which suggests that those influences and tendencies really do exist. As they find the fact, they will judge me. If they discern any evidences of wrong-going in any direction that I have indicated, they will acknowledge that I had...
My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in m...
"If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland, --broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length of time, by the power of the restless water..."
"If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are Engl...
"If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The little neighbouring islands, which are so small upon the Map as to be mere dots, are chiefly little bits of Scotland,--broken off, I dare say, in the course of a great length of time, by the power of the restless water..."
"If you look at a Map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are Engl...
Here are not many people-and as it is desirable that a story- teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual under-standing as soon as possible, I beg it to be noticed that I confine this observation neither to young people nor to little people, but extend it to all conditions of people: little and big, young and old: yet growing up, or already growing down again-there are not, I say, many people who would care to sleep in a church. I dont mean at sermon-time in warm weather (when the thing has actually been done, once or twice), but in the night, and alone. A great multitude of persons...
Here are not many people-and as it is desirable that a story- teller and a story-reader should establish a mutual under-standing as soon as possible, ...
This volume contains Charles Dickens s 1844 short story "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In." Published one year after "A Christmas Carol" and one year before "The Cricket on the Hearth," this book constitutes the second in Dickens s series of Christmas books, and it is highly recommended for fans and collectors of his seminal work. Charles John Huffam Dickens (1812 - 1870) was a seminal English author. Dickens created some of the world s most famous fictional characters, and is considered to be the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Many...
This volume contains Charles Dickens s 1844 short story "The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In." Publis...
