Letters from an American FarmerFox, Duffield, 1904 - 355 страници A large part of the book is devoted to a description of the town of Nantucket. |
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... ancient generations , and to very distant periods , clouded with the mist of ages . Here , on the contrary , every thing is modern , peace- ful , and benign . Here we have had no war , to desolate our fields * : our religion does not ...
... ancient generations , and to very distant periods , clouded with the mist of ages . Here , on the contrary , every thing is modern , peace- ful , and benign . Here we have had no war , to desolate our fields * : our religion does not ...
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... ancient dignity of our species ; our laws are simple and just , we are a race of cultivators , our cultivation is unrestrained , and therefore every thing is prosperous and flourishing . For my part I had rather admire the ample barn of ...
... ancient dignity of our species ; our laws are simple and just , we are a race of cultivators , our cultivation is unrestrained , and therefore every thing is prosperous and flourishing . For my part I had rather admire the ample barn of ...
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... territory ; for the decency of their manners ; for their early love of letters ; their ancient college , the first in this hemisphere ; for their industry ; which to me who am but a farmer , is which WHAT IS AN AMERICAN . 51.
... territory ; for the decency of their manners ; for their early love of letters ; their ancient college , the first in this hemisphere ; for their industry ; which to me who am but a farmer , is which WHAT IS AN AMERICAN . 51.
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... ancient prejudices and manners , receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced , the new go- vernment he obeys , and the new rank he holds . He He becomes an American by being received in the broad 54 WHAT IS AN AMERICAN .
... ancient prejudices and manners , receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced , the new go- vernment he obeys , and the new rank he holds . He He becomes an American by being received in the broad 54 WHAT IS AN AMERICAN .
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... ancient debts ; the re - union of such people does not afford a very pleasing spectacle . When discord , want of unity and friendship ; when either drunkenness or idleness prevail in such remote districts ; contention , inactivity , and ...
... ancient debts ; the re - union of such people does not afford a very pleasing spectacle . When discord , want of unity and friendship ; when either drunkenness or idleness prevail in such remote districts ; contention , inactivity , and ...
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Страница 55 - The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labor, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence. — This is an American.
Страница 49 - Some few towns excepted, we are all tillers of the earth, from Nova Scotia to West Florida. We are a people of cultivators, scattered over an immense territory, communicating with each other by means of good roads and navigable rivers, united by the silken bands of mild government, all respecting the laws, without dreading their power, because they are equitable. We are all animated with the spirit of an industry which is unfettered and unrestrained, because each person works for himself.
Страница 263 - Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God...
Страница 91 - ... comfortable fireside to sit by and tell thy children by what means thou hast prospered, and a decent bed to repose on. I shall endow thee beside with the immunities of a freeman. If thou wilt carefully educate thy children, teach them gratitude to God and reverence to that government, that philanthropic government, which has collected here so many men and made them happy, I will also provide for thy progeny; and to every good man this ought to be the most holy, the most powerful, the most earnest...
Страница 66 - Thus all sects are mixed as well as all nations ; thus religious indifference is imperceptibly disseminated frnm nne end of the continent to the other; which is at present one of the strongest characteristics of the Americans. Where this will reach no one can tell, perhaps it may leave a vacuum fit to receive other systems. Persecution, religious pride, the love of contradiction, are the food of what the...
Страница 65 - ... will exhibit a strange religious medley, that will be neither pure Catholicism nor pure Calvinism. A very perceptible indifference even in the first generation, will become apparent; and it may happen that the daughter of the Catholic will marry the son of the seceder, and settle by themselves at a distance from their parents.
Страница 55 - Americans are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigour, and industry which began long since in the east; they will finish the great circle.
Страница 68 - Eating of wild meat, whatever you may think, tends to alter their temper, though all the proof I can adduce is that I have seen it; and having no place of worship to resort to, what little society this might afford is denied them. The Sunday meetings, exclusive of religious benefits, were the only social bonds that might...