...tion by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publicati... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvan... ...ity The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens PREFACE TO THE FI... ...ith a great assumption of dignity and refinement of manner, sat an elderly female, in as many scraps of finery as American Notes – Dickens 50 Madge ... ...oof. In the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already sat in th... ... the gallery opposite to the pulpit were a little choir of male and female singers, a violoncello, and a violin. The preacher already sat in the pulpi... ...loyed; and should no more be deterred from doing so, because some wretched female referred her fall to a love of dress, than I would allow my construc... ... it is quite ready for use, shooting the old one from his mouth, as from a pop gun, and clapping the new one in its place. I was surprised to observe ...

...e a disconsolate family to mourn his loss; so in academies of the male and female sex it occurs every now and then that the pupil is fully worthy of t... ...nch nation, who was by profession an opera-girl. The humble calling of her female parent Miss Sharp never alluded to, but used to state subsequently t... ...Sedley, too, had communed with his soul, and said to himself, “ ‘Gad, I’ll pop the question at V auxhall.” 41 Thackeray CHAPTER V Dobbin of Ours CUFF... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ... shawl (the people laughed at seeing the gawky young officer carrying this female burthen); but William Dobbin was very little addicted to selfish cal... ...ng melodies under the gilded cockle-shell in the midst of the gardens; the singers, both of comic and sentimental ballads, who charmed the ears there;... ...im still. Even yet she used to send him little hurried smuggled notes, and pop them into the post in private. The one dreadful secret which weighed up... ...wether. There was Mr. John Paul Jefferson Jones, titularly attached to the American Embassy and correspondent of the New Y ork Demagogue, who, by way ... ...o well? Finally, the procession being formed in the order described by the American diplomatist, they marched into the apartment where the banquet was...

...ONS of such a place as Albaro, the suburb of Genoa, where I am now, as my American friends would say, ‘located,’ can hardly fail, I should imagine, t... ...ecessary), and stood there at my ease, during the performance of Mass. The singers were in a crib of wire work (like a large meat safe or bird cage) ... ...sed to view a little wooden doll, in face very like General Tom Thumb, the American Dwarf: gorgeously dressed in satin and gold lace, and actually bla... ...te Campagna in one direc tion, where it was most level, reminded me of an American prairie; but what is the solitude of a region where men have never... ...nd them that he took the money. The majority were country people, male and female. There were four or five Jesuit priests, however, and some half doze... ...e they lie half suffo cated with mud and dust. Exhibitors of Punch, buffo singers with guitars, reciters of poetry, reciters of stories, a row of che...

... , and his almond eyes almost closed as he did so. There were two or three American men, in black coats, rather yellow and dry of skin: they were theo... ... tall and slim. He held himself with a deliberate grace. Weeks, one of the American students, seeing him alone, went up and began to talk to him. The ... ...one, went up and began to talk to him. The pair were oddly contrasted: the American very neat in his black coat and pepper-and-salt trou- sers, thin a... ...nosed comedians were lauded to the skies for their sense of character; fat female singers, who had bawled obscurely for twenty years, were discov- ere... ...omedians were lauded to the skies for their sense of character; fat female singers, who had bawled obscurely for twenty years, were discov- ered to po... ... , the conversation he listened to, to trouble himself with the desire for female society. He thought there would be plenty of time for that when he c... ...Philip. “They generally always like a male better,” said the attendant. “A female’s liable to have a lot of fat about her. ” Philip looked at the body... ...bland smile, but his eyes grew blank and stupid. “I expect I shall ‘ave to pop over to Paris for it in the end.” 678 Of Human Bondage “Oh, I think we...

...inattentively, and he saw that she was preoc- cupied with a new idea. “And Americana—do you collect Americana?” Selden stared and laughed. “No, that’s... ... good editions of the books I am fond of.” She made a slight grimace. “And Americana are horribly dull, I suppose?” “I should fancy so—except to the h... ...l collector values a thing for its rarity. I don’t suppose the buy- ers of Americana sit up reading them all night—old Jefferson Gryce certainly didn’... ...een this year and last, except that the women have got new clothes and the singers haven’t got new voices. My wife’s musical, you know—puts me through... ... the curtains pre- sented any exceptional opportunity for the study of the female outline, affected their hearer in an unexpected way. It was not the ... ...ome and see her then.” “Y es: exactly—that’s capital. I’ll tell her you’ll pop in to 133 Edith Wharton morrow morning. And now do sit down a minute, ...

...-slow, far-near, forward-back, degeneration, re-composition, life-death, male-female, in-out, positive polarity- negative polarity. The Path ... ...e and Infinity are almost the same as the symbols representing male and the female gender is not a coincidence. The Universal symbols of Birth an... ...the origin of sexuality. The recreated dynamic of the birth of the Male and Female Universe can be seen in the sexual organs of mammals. The fema... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ... is based upon owning and operating small shops or small businesses. Mom and pop stores. Run by a single family. The owner sitting behind his or ... ...ions came from. Maybe they are just the same business model as these mom-and pop stores, except expanded to a larger size and degree of greed and we... ...No Wal-Mart could ever survive running on the slim profit margin of a mom-and-pop store. No oil corporation could ever survive on a small profit ma...

... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ...a member of this Soci- ety must be a professed lover of one or more of the female sex.” The rich, as Burns himself points out, may have a choice of pl... ...nstruing my remarks further than even I intended, flew off in a tangent of female dignity and reserve, like a mounting lark in an April morning; and w... ..., deliberate, prudent reply, as brought my bird from her aerial towerings, pop, down to my foot, like Corporal T rim’s hat.” I avow a carnal longing, ... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...antic. And one thing more. If he had said “the love of healthy men for the female form,” he would have said almost a silliness; for the thing has neve... ... a sheet of manuscript, and the name will be recalled, the old infamy will pop out into daylight like a toad out of a fissure in the rock, and the sha... ...ongruity, it may have pleased Charles to own a sort of kinship with ragged singers, and whimsically regard himself as one of the confraternity of poet...