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America as I Found it - Page 24
by Mary Grey Lundie Duncan - 1852 - 456 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 76

English literature - 1843 - 630 pages
...repeats the same sentiment as applicable, not to New York only, but to the nation generally : — ' They are by nature frank, brave, cordial, hospitable, '...Warmth of heart and ardent enthusiasm ; and it is the pos' session of these latter qualities in a most remarkable degree, ' which renders an educated American...
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The London University Magazine, Volume 1

English literature - 1842 - 416 pages
...be inconsistent with what he gives us as his own impression of the national character — " They " (the Americans) "are, by nature, frank, brave, cordial,...of the most endearing and most generous of friends. . . These qualities are natural, I implicitly believe, to the whole people." We much wish that our...
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A Comparative View of the Constitutions of Great Britain and the United ...

Peter Freeland Aiken - Great Britain - 1842 - 206 pages
...to many of us it is the best beloved spot the sun shines upon. " The Americans," says Mr. Dickens, " are by nature frank, brave, cordial, hospitable, and...affectionate. Cultivation and refinement seem but to enhance tibeir warmth of heart and ardent enthusiasm ; and it is the possession of these latter qualities,...
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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CITICAL JOURNAL

THE EDINBURGH REVIEW OR CRITICAL JOURNAL - 1843 - 672 pages
...repeats the same sentiment as applicable, not to New York only, but to the nation generally: — 'They are by nature frank, brave, cordial, hospitable, '...warmth of heart and ardent enthusiasm ; and it is the pos' session of these latter qualities in a most remarkable degree, ' which renders an educated American...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 76

English literature - 1843 - 630 pages
...repeats the ^ame sentiment as applicable, not to New Yoik only, but to the naiion generally : — ' They are by nature frank, brave, cordial, hospitable, '...but to enhance ' their warmth of heart and ardent entbusiasm ; and it is the pos' session of these latter qualities in a most remarkable degree, ' which...
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America as I Found it

Mary Grey Lundie Duncan - Travel - 1852 - 400 pages
...as by sympathy to feel and act as becomes brotherly love. A passage in the conclusion of Dickens's American Notes — one of the best in the book, is...their warmth of heart and ardent enthusiasm, and it is tho possession of these latter qualities in a most remarkable degree, which renders an educated American...
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American Notes for General Circulation

Charles Dickens - Canada - 1868 - 130 pages
...hy nature frank, hrave, cordial, hospitahle, and affectionate. Cnltivatlon and refinement seem hut to enhance their warmth of heart and ardent enthusiasm...the possession of these latter qualities in a most remarkaWe degree which renders an educated Ameri'-an one ol the most endearing and most generous of...
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The Works of Charles Dickens: Pickwick papers (1873)

Charles Dickens - 1877 - 398 pages
...eyes, I desire to express my own opinions in a few words, before I bring these volumes to a close. They are, by nature, frank, brave, cordial, hospitable,...qualities in a most remarkable degree which renders an edncated American one of the most endearing and most generous of friends. I never was so won upon as...
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Famous English Authors of the Nineteenth Century

Sarah Knowles Bolton - Authors, English - 1890 - 488 pages
...cell, and I the cause, or I consenting to it in the least degree." Dickens said of Americans, " They are by nature, frank, brave, cordial, hospitable,...the most endearing and most generous of friends." At the same time, he saw defects, — not difficult to find in any nation, — defects of manner, of...
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Martin Chuzzlewit, Volume 2

Charles Dickens - 1908 - 644 pages
...eyes, I desire to express my own opinions in a few words, before I bring this volume to a close. They are, by nature, frank, brave, cordial, hospitable,...refinement seem but to enhance their warmth of heart and arden'i enthusiasm; and it is the possession of these latter qualities in a most remarkable degree,...
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