| 1842 - 468 pages
...account, and we pass to another scene : — " Such aro the Institutions at South Boston ! In all of them, the unfortunate or degenerate citizens of the...are surrounded by all reasonable means of comfort and happiness that their * Similar institutions, with the like beneficial result, are found in Paris,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1842 - 328 pages
...defensive, will ever be required within its bounds. Such are the Institutions at South Boston ! In all of them, the unfortunate or degenerate citizens of the...are surrounded by all reasonable means of comfort and happiness that their condition will admit of ; are appealed to, as members of the great human family,... | |
| 1842 - 590 pages
...sinks into something comparatively insignificant, amidst a whole Pantheon of better gods. Above all, I sincerely believe that the public institutions and...as nearly perfect, as the most considerate wisdom, benevolence, and humanity, can make them. I never in my life was more affected by the contemplation... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1842 - 646 pages
...sinks into something comparatively insignificant , amidst a whole Pantheon of better gods. Above all , I sincerely believe that the public institutions and...as nearly perfect, as the most considerate wisdom, benevolence, and humanity, can make them. I never in my life was more affected by the contemplation... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1842 - 452 pages
...sinks into something comparatively insigniQcant, amidst a whole Pantheon of better gods. Above all , I sincerely believe that the public institutions and...as nearly perfect, as the most considerate wisdom , benevolence , and humanity, can make them. I never in my life was more affected by the contemplation... | |
| S. Warrand - 1842 - 590 pages
...sinks irilo something comparatively insignificant, amidst a whole Pantheon of belter gods. Above all. I sincerely believe that the public institutions and...as nearly perfect, as the most considerate wisdom, benevolence, and humanity, can make them. I never in my life was more aflected by the contemplation... | |
| John Ross Dix, Looker on - 1845 - 160 pages
...one in a thousand does so to any good or useful purpose. Dickens says, in his ' American Notes,' ' I sincerely believe that the public institutions and...as nearly perfect as the most considerate wisdom, benevolence, and humanity can make them. I never in my life was more affected by the contemplation... | |
| William Hancock (emigrant.) - 1860 - 352 pages
...vanity than the most inveterate American can find him guilty of. " I sincerely believe," he says, " that the public institutions and charities of this...as nearly perfect as the most considerate wisdom, benevolence, and humanity can make them. I never in my life was more affected by the contemplation... | |
| William Hancock (emigrant.) - 1860 - 368 pages
...vanity than the most inveterate American can find him guilty of. " I sincerely believe," he says, " that the public institutions and charities of this...as nearly perfect as the most considerate wisdom, benevolence, and humanity can make them. I never in my life was more affected by the contemplation... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1863 - 202 pages
...sinke into something comparatively insignificant, amidst a whole Pantheon of better gods. Above all, I sincerely believe that the public institutions and...capital of Massachusetts are as nearly perfect, as the must considerate wisdom, benevolence, and humanity, can make them. I never in my life was more affected... | |
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