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Title: American facts : notes and statistics relative to the government, resources, engagements, manufactures, commerce, religion, education, literature, fine arts, manners and customs of the United States of America
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Putnam, George Palmer, 1814-1872
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Publisher: London : Wiley and Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of the Hudson.His writings are too well known in Europe to needcomment. Two or three years since he contributeda series of papers to the magazine, which is namedfrom his own veritable and facetious ^ Knickerbocker.No American writer is more admired by his country-men, and none more respected and beloved by thosewho know him in private life. The lamented Channing died in 1842, at the age ofsixty-two. He was a grandson of one of the signersof the Declaration of Independence; was educated atHarvard, and for many years was minister of a churchin Boston. His essays on Milton, Buonaparte, andFenelon, have been admired by tens of thousands inboth hemispheres; and his numerous tracts againstslavery, and on behalf of the labouring classes, placehim in the foremost rank of true philanthropists.His various writings, including religious discourses,fill six volumes. He had planned larger and moreimportant works for the improvement of society—but his health was always feeble, and death prema- P!
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