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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... causing him to be suspected as a spy , he was imprisoned for three months . He was then permitted to sail , and , on his arrival in England , sold for thirty guineas his " Letters from an American Farmer , " which were published at ...
... causing him to be suspected as a spy , he was imprisoned for three months . He was then permitted to sail , and , on his arrival in England , sold for thirty guineas his " Letters from an American Farmer , " which were published at ...
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... cause of humanity in espousing that of the poor Africans : you viewed these provinces of North America in their true light , as the asylum of freedom ; as the cradle of future nations , and the refuge of distressed Europeans . Why then ...
... cause of humanity in espousing that of the poor Africans : you viewed these provinces of North America in their true light , as the asylum of freedom ; as the cradle of future nations , and the refuge of distressed Europeans . Why then ...
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... cause I received you with hospitality and kindness , you should imagine me capable of writing with propriety and pers- picuity ? Your gratitude misleads your judge- ment . The knowledge which I acquired from your conversation has amply ...
... cause I received you with hospitality and kindness , you should imagine me capable of writing with propriety and pers- picuity ? Your gratitude misleads your judge- ment . The knowledge which I acquired from your conversation has amply ...
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... causes which w render so many people happy ? In delineating the unnoticed means by which we daily increase the extent of our settlements ? How we convert huge forests into pleasing fields , and exhibit through these thirteen provinces ...
... causes which w render so many people happy ? In delineating the unnoticed means by which we daily increase the extent of our settlements ? How we convert huge forests into pleasing fields , and exhibit through these thirteen provinces ...
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... cause of so great a decay . Here he might contemplate the very beginnings and out - lines of human society , which can be traced no where now but in this part of the world . The rest of the earth , I am told , is in some places too full ...
... cause of so great a decay . Here he might contemplate the very beginnings and out - lines of human society , which can be traced no where now but in this part of the world . The rest of the earth , I am told , is in some places too full ...
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Страница 48 - He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.
Страница 49 - Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the Western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigor and industry which began long since in the East; they will finish the great circle.
Страница 259 - Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God...
Страница 48 - French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced...
Страница 50 - 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 labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence. This is an American.
Страница 42 - Here he beholds fair cities, substantial villages, extensive fields, an immense country filled with decent houses, good roads, orchards, meadows, and bridges, where an hundred years ago all was wild, woody, and uncultivated!
Страница 44 - If he travels through our rural districts he views not the hostile castle and the haughty mansion, contrasted with the clay-built hut and miserable cabin, where cattle and men help to keep each other warm, and dwell in meanness, smoke, and indigence.
Страница 71 - He begins to feel the effects of a sort of resurrection; hitherto he had not lived, but simply vegetated; he now feels himself a man because he is treated as such; the laws of his own country had overlooked him in his insignificancy; the laws of this cover him with their mantle.