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classicals (9)in #pecksniff • 7 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #9/428
What a pleasant sight was that the contrast they presented; to see each loved and loving one sympathizing with, and devoted to, and leaning on, and yet correcting and…
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classicals (9)in #pecksniff • 15 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #8/428
She said it at a venture, but there was appropriate matter in it too; for Mr Pecksniff, being in the act of extinguishing the candles before mentioned pretty rapidly, and of…
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classicals (9)in #shrill • 23 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #7/428
As to this idle company, there they stood, spellbound by the place, and, casting now and then a glance upon the darkness in their rear, settled their lazy elbows more at ease…
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classicals (9)in #twowherein • 29 days ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #6/428
CHAPTER TWOWHEREIN CERTAIN PERSONS ARE PRESENTED TO THE READER, WITH WHOM HE MAY, IF HE PLEASE, BECOME BETTER ACQUAINTEDIt was pretty late in the autumn of the year, when the…
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classicals (9)in #chuzzlewit • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #5/428
Rejecting a theory broached by some well-meaning but mistaken persons, that this Mr Toby Chuzzlewit's grandfather, to judge from his name, must surely have been a Mandarin (which…
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classicals (9)in #venerable • last month
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #4/428
But there is one other piece of evidence, bearing immediate reference to their close connection with this memorable event in English History, which must carry conviction, even to…
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classicals (9)in #chuzzlewit • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #3/428
CHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTORY, CONCERNING THE PEDIGREE OF THE CHUZZLEWIT FAMILYAs no lady or gentleman, with any claims to polite breeding, can possibly sympathize with the Chuzzlewit…
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classicals (9)in #york • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #2/428
POSTSCRIPTAt a Public Dinner given to me on Saturday the 18th of April, 1868, in the city of New York, by two hundred representatives of the Press of the United States of…
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classicals (9)in #perceives • 2 months ago
[Literature] Charles Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit #1/428
PREFACEWhat is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable…
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