Charles Astor Bristed
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An American in Victorian Cambridge: Charles Astor Bristed's "Five Years in an English University"
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2008
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The upper ten thousand
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1852
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The Interference Theory of Government
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Pieces of a Broken-Down Critic: Picked Up by Himself
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2009
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A Letter to the Honorable Horace Mann
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1850
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Five Years in an English University 2 Volume Paperback Set
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2010
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A Letter to Dr. Henry Halford Jones (Editor of the Wintertown Democrat): Concerning His Habit of Giving Advice to Everybody and His Qualifications for the Task.
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2012
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Five Years in an English University
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2010
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Now is the time to settle it
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2013
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Five Years in an English Univerisity 1873 Leather Bound
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“The next thing Americans like to hearing themselves well praised, is to hear somebody, even if it be themselves, well abused;”
― The upper ten thousand
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“that it is rather the fun of making the money than the money itself which they care for; that when it is made, they spend it freely, and part with it more readily than they earned it; that they are more liberal both in their public and private charities (considering the amount of their wealth, and of the claims upon it) than any nation in the world,—all these traits strangers have been less ready to dwell upon and do justice to.”
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“It is a standing American joke to say of the biggest possible hoax or canard, 'I read it in a newspaper, and it must be true.”
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