...American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes f... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...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 ... ...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... ..., have been educated at this same school. Whatever the defects of American universities may be, they dissemi nate no prejudices; rear no bigots; dig ... ...g to, my friends. That’s it. That’s the place. That’s the port. That’s the haven. It’s a blessed harbour — still water there, in all changes of the wi... ... hours. For tunately, however, the winter having been unusually mild, the Connecticut River was ‘open, ’ or, in other words, not frozen. The captain ... ... but slumber, in the House of Lords. I have seen elections for borough and county, and have never been impelled (no matter which party won) to damage ... ...reared, by scores upon American Notes – Dickens 260 scores of thousands; colleges may thrive, churches may be crammed, temperance may be diffused, a...

...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...