“ ‘A man ain’t got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views. ”
Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1844). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
|---|---|
| Source | Martin Chuzzlewit |
| Topic | public right |
| Date | 1844 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/968/968-h/968-h.htm |
Context
“With that, he fell into the rear to walk with Mark, while Martin and Elijah Pogram went on to the National.
‘We’ve come back alive, you see!’ said Mark.
‘It ain’t the thing I did expect,’ the Captain grumbled. ‘A man ain’t got no right to be a public man, unless he meets the public views. Our fashionable people wouldn’t have attended his le-vee, if they had know’d it.’
Nothing mollified the Captain, who persisted in taking it very ill that they had not both died in Eden. The boarders at the National felt strongly on the subject too;”
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