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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... tree ; who hath expended the Lord knows how many years in studying stars , geometry , stones , and flies , and in reading folio books ? Who hath travelled , as he told us , to the city of Rome itself ! Only think of a London man going ...
... tree ; who hath expended the Lord knows how many years in studying stars , geometry , stones , and flies , and in reading folio books ? Who hath travelled , as he told us , to the city of Rome itself ! Only think of a London man going ...
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... tree in his plantation , and was the first founder of his settlement , than study the di- mensions of the temple of Ceres . I had rather record the progressive steps of this industrious farmer , throughout all the stages of his labours ...
... tree in his plantation , and was the first founder of his settlement , than study the di- mensions of the temple of Ceres . I had rather record the progressive steps of this industrious farmer , throughout all the stages of his labours ...
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... trees dwarfed into pigmies . Do let Mr. F. B. see on paper a few American wild cherry trees , such as nature forms them here , in all her unconfined vigour , in all the amplitude of their extended limbs and spreading 1 spreading ...
... trees dwarfed into pigmies . Do let Mr. F. B. see on paper a few American wild cherry trees , such as nature forms them here , in all her unconfined vigour , in all the amplitude of their extended limbs and spreading 1 spreading ...
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... trees to cut down , no fences to make , no negroes to buy and to clothe : and now I think on it , when wilt thee send him those trees he bespoke ? But if they have no trees to cut down , they have gold have 18 INTRODUCTORY LETTER .
... trees to cut down , no fences to make , no negroes to buy and to clothe : and now I think on it , when wilt thee send him those trees he bespoke ? But if they have no trees to cut down , they have gold have 18 INTRODUCTORY LETTER .
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J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur. have no trees to cut down , they have gold in abundance , they say ; for they rake it and scrape it from all parts far and near . I have often heard my grandfather tell how they live there by writing ...
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur. have no trees to cut down , they have gold in abundance , they say ; for they rake it and scrape it from all parts far and near . I have often heard my grandfather tell how they live there by writing ...
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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...