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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... af- ford matter of useful entertainment to an in- telligent and candid publick , a second volume , equally interesting with those now published , may soon be expected . TO THE ABBÉ RAYNAL , F. R. S. B EHOLD XXX ADVERTISEMENT .
... af- ford matter of useful entertainment to an in- telligent and candid publick , a second volume , equally interesting with those now published , may soon be expected . TO THE ABBÉ RAYNAL , F. R. S. B EHOLD XXX ADVERTISEMENT .
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... equally accused of idleness , and vain notions not befitting thy condition . Our colo- nel would be often coming here to know what it is that thee canst write so much about . Some would imagine that thee wantest to become either an ...
... equally accused of idleness , and vain notions not befitting thy condition . Our colo- nel would be often coming here to know what it is that thee canst write so much about . Some would imagine that thee wantest to become either an ...
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... equally new to him ; and we went slow , in order to give him time to feed on this pleasing variety . Good God ! said he , is this Philadelphia , that blessed city of bread and provisions , of which we have heard so much ? I am told it ...
... equally new to him ; and we went slow , in order to give him time to feed on this pleasing variety . Good God ! said he , is this Philadelphia , that blessed city of bread and provisions , of which we have heard so much ? I am told it ...
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... equally broad idiom . It must have been a most unintelligible altercation between this honest Barra man , and nine Indians who did not much care for any thing he could say . At last he ventured to lay his hands on one of them , in order ...
... equally broad idiom . It must have been a most unintelligible altercation between this honest Barra man , and nine Indians who did not much care for any thing he could say . At last he ventured to lay his hands on one of them , in order ...
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... equally abounded with the same quantity of fish and clams ; in that instance there could be no jealousy , no motives to anger ; the country afforded them no game ; one would think this ought to have been the country of harmony and peace ...
... equally abounded with the same quantity of fish and clams ; in that instance there could be no jealousy , no motives to anger ; the country afforded them no game ; one would think this ought to have been the country of harmony and peace ...
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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...