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II. Power
His tongue was framed to music,And his hand was armed with skill,His face was the mould of beau...
I. Fate
Delicate omens traced in airTo the lone bard true witness bare;Birds with auguries on their win...
Chapter XIX. Speech at Manchester
A few days after my arrival at Manchester, in November, 1847, the Manchester Athenaeum gave its a...
Chapter XVIII. Result
England is the best of actual nations. It is no ideal framework, it is an old pile built in diffe...
Chapter XVII. Personal
In these comments on an old journey now revised after seven busy yearse much changed men and thin...
Chapter XVI. Stonehenge
It had been agreed between my friend Mr. Carlyle and me, that before I left England, we should ma...
Chapter XV. The “Times”
The power of the newspaper is familiar in America, and in accordance with our political system. I...
Chapter XIV. Literature
A strong common sense, which it is not easy to unseat or disturb, marks the English mind for a th...
Chapter XIII. Religion
No people, at the present day, can be explained by their national religion. They do not feel resp...
Chapter XII. Universities
Of British universities, Cambridge has the most illustrious names on its list. At the present day...
Chapter XI. Aristocracy
The feudal character of the English state, now that it is getting obsolete, glares a little, in c...
Chapter X. Wealth
There is no country in which so absolute a homage is paid to wealth. In America, there is a touch...
Chapter IX. Cockayne
The English are a nation of humorists. Individual right is pushed to the uttermost bound compatib...
Chapter VIII. Character
The English race are reputed morose. I do not know that they have sadder brows than their neighbo...
Chapter VII. Truth
The teutonic tribes have a national singleness of heart, which contrasts with the Latin races. Th...
Chapter VI. Manners
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselv...
Chapter V. Ability
The saxon and the Northman are both Scandinavians. History does not allow us to fix the limits of...
Chapter IV. Race
An ingenious anatomist has written a book (*) to prove that races are imperishable, but nations a...
Chapter III. Land
Alfieri thought Italy and England the only countries worth living in; the former, because there n...
Chapter II. Voyage to England
The occasion of my second visit to England was an invitation from some Mechanics’ Institutes in L...