Letters from an American FarmerFox, Duffield, 1904 - 355 страници |
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... forming a large association , scattered along a coast 1500 miles extent and about 200 wide . This society I would fain examine , at least such as it appears in the middle provinces ; if it does not afford that variety of tinges and ...
... forming a large association , scattered along a coast 1500 miles extent and about 200 wide . This society I would fain examine , at least such as it appears in the middle provinces ; if it does not afford that variety of tinges and ...
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... formed in his life . If he is wise ( he thus spends two or three years , in which time he acquires knowledge , the use of tools , the modes of working the lands , felling trees , & c . This prepares the foundation of a good name , the ...
... formed in his life . If he is wise ( he thus spends two or three years , in which time he acquires knowledge , the use of tools , the modes of working the lands , felling trees , & c . This prepares the foundation of a good name , the ...
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... formed in the island of Barra , were at the eve of being realised ; we therefore can easily forgive him a few spon- taneous ejaculations , which would be useless to repeat . This short tale is easily told ; few words are sufficient to ...
... formed in the island of Barra , were at the eve of being realised ; we therefore can easily forgive him a few spon- taneous ejaculations , which would be useless to repeat . This short tale is easily told ; few words are sufficient to ...
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... formed for Andrew's prosperity . He could say nothing , but with thankful tears he shook hands with them all . Thus from the first day he had landed , Andrew marched towards this important event : this memorable day made the sun shine ...
... formed for Andrew's prosperity . He could say nothing , but with thankful tears he shook hands with them all . Thus from the first day he had landed , Andrew marched towards this important event : this memorable day made the sun shine ...
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... formed in the several vallies a great variety of swamps , where the Indian grass and the blue bent , peculiar to such soils , grow with tolerable luxuriancy . Some of the swamps abound with peat , which serves the poor instead of fire ...
... formed in the several vallies a great variety of swamps , where the Indian grass and the blue bent , peculiar to such soils , grow with tolerable luxuriancy . Some of the swamps abound with peat , which serves the poor instead of fire ...
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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.