...n ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...ce of national pride and honour. You have in America great writ ers—great writers—who will live in all time, and are as fa miliar to our lips as hou... ...ve you a senti ment, most appropriate, I am sure, in the presence of such writers as Bryant, Halleck, and—but I suppose I must not mention the ladies... ...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...me when the old man and his son took their donkey home, which were the old Greek days, I believe, and probably ever since the time when the donkey wen... ...n above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent,” at all times and in all ages gardens have been amongst the object...