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The Project Gutenberg EBook of At Home And Abroad, by Margaret Fuller Ossoli This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Author: Margaret Fuller Ossoli Editor: Arthur B. Fuller Release Date: July 18, 2005 [EBook #16327] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AT HOME AND ABROAD *** Produced by Alison Hadwin and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net AT HOME AND ABROAD; OR, THINGS AND THOUGHTS IN AMERICA AND EUROPE. BY MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI, Author of "Woman in the Nineteenth Century," "Art, Literature, and the Drama," "Life without and Life Within," etc. Edited by Her Brother, ARTHUR B. FULLER. NEW AND COMPLETE EDITION. NEW YORK; THE TRIBUNE ASSOCIATION. 134 Nassau Street 1869 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by ARTHUR B. FULLER, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. PREFACE. There are at least three classes of persons who travel in our own land and abroad. The first and largest in number consists of those who, "having eyes, see not, and ears, hear not," anything which is profitable to be remembered. Crossing lake and ocean, passing over the broad prairies of the New World or the classic fields of the Old, though they look on the virgin soil sown thickly with flowers by the hand of God, or on scenes memorable in man's history, they gaze heedlessly, and when they return home can but tell us what they ate and drank, and where slept,--no more; for this and matters of like import are all for which they have cared in their wanderings. Those composing the second class travel more intelligently. They visit scrupulously all places which are noted either as the homes of literature, the abodes of Art, or made classic by the pens of ancient genius. Accurately do they mark the distance of one famed city from another, the size and general appearance of each; they see as many as possible of celebrated pictures and works of art, and mark carefully dimensions, age, and all details concerning them. Men, too, whom the world regards as g
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