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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... fields , and exhibit through these thirteen provinces so singular a display of easy subsistence and political felicity . In Italy all the objects of contemplation , all the reveries of the traveller , must have a refer- ence to ancient ...
... fields , and exhibit through these thirteen provinces so singular a display of easy subsistence and political felicity . In Italy all the objects of contemplation , all the reveries of the traveller , must have a refer- ence to ancient ...
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... fields of future cultivation and improvement , to the future extent of those generations which are to replenish and embellish this boundless con- tinent . There the half - ruined amphitheatres and the putrid fevers of the Campania ...
... fields of future cultivation and improvement , to the future extent of those generations which are to replenish and embellish this boundless con- tinent . There the half - ruined amphitheatres and the putrid fevers of the Campania ...
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... field of speculation might be here , the time of English travellers would not be wholly lost . The new and unex- pected aspect of our extensive settlements ; of our fine rivers ; that great field of action every where visible ; that ...
... field of speculation might be here , the time of English travellers would not be wholly lost . The new and unex- pected aspect of our extensive settlements ; of our fine rivers ; that great field of action every where visible ; that ...
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... them keeps the furrow , the other avoids it ; at the end of my field they turn either to the right or left as they are bid , whilst I thought- lessly lessly hold and guide the plough to which they are INTRODUCTORY LETTER . 15.
... them keeps the furrow , the other avoids it ; at the end of my field they turn either to the right or left as they are bid , whilst I thought- lessly lessly hold and guide the plough to which they are INTRODUCTORY LETTER . 15.
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... fields I worked with more alacrity and sprightliness ; I felt that I did not work for myself alone , and this encouraged me much . My wife would often come with her kitting in her hand , and sit under the shady trees , praising the ...
... fields I worked with more alacrity and sprightliness ; I felt that I did not work for myself alone , and this encouraged me much . My wife would often come with her kitting in her hand , and sit under the shady trees , praising the ...
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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.