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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... simple virtue and un- trammeled manhood , which was one of the dreams of his age . Here were none of those social distinctions against which Werther so bitterly rebelled . The restraints of law were reduced to a minimum and in ...
... simple virtue and un- trammeled manhood , which was one of the dreams of his age . Here were none of those social distinctions against which Werther so bitterly rebelled . The restraints of law were reduced to a minimum and in ...
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... simple American farmer who is supposed to have written them selects certain phases of colonial life , inner and outer , and talks about them easily and gracefully , rising only now and then to any real intensity of utterance . The ...
... simple American farmer who is supposed to have written them selects certain phases of colonial life , inner and outer , and talks about them easily and gracefully , rising only now and then to any real intensity of utterance . The ...
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... simple , elementary emotions of humanity do not often find their way into literature as they do in this second letter of Crèvecoeur . He is proud of his essential priv- ileges as a mere man . He is moved by the sight of his wife and ...
... simple , elementary emotions of humanity do not often find their way into literature as they do in this second letter of Crèvecoeur . He is proud of his essential priv- ileges as a mere man . He is moved by the sight of his wife and ...
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... simple things into true human dignity , of con- necting the homeliest activity with the ultimate social purpose which it furthers in its own small way , his description of the American would have been fair enough . As a matter of fact ...
... simple things into true human dignity , of con- necting the homeliest activity with the ultimate social purpose which it furthers in its own small way , his description of the American would have been fair enough . As a matter of fact ...
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... simple colonial days were over ; the great upheaval had come , and the future was as yet unknown . As to Crèvecoeur's style in the narrower sense , his translations into French and his orig- inal inal work in that language show that he ...
... simple colonial days were over ; the great upheaval had come , and the future was as yet unknown . As to Crèvecoeur's style in the narrower sense , his translations into French and his orig- inal inal work in that language show that he ...
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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...