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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... labour ; your mind is what we called at Yale college a Tabula rasa , where 、 spontaneous and strong impressions are de- lineated with facility . Ah , neighbour ! had you received but half the education of Mr. F. B. you had been a ...
... labour ; your mind is what we called at Yale college a Tabula rasa , where 、 spontaneous and strong impressions are de- lineated with facility . Ah , neighbour ! had you received but half the education of Mr. F. B. you had been a ...
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... labour flows from instinct , as well as that of my horses ; there is no kind of difference between us in our different shares of that operation ; one of them keeps the furrow , the other avoids it ; at the end of my field they turn ...
... labour flows from instinct , as well as that of my horses ; there is no kind of difference between us in our different shares of that operation ; one of them keeps the furrow , the other avoids it ; at the end of my field they turn ...
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... their industry , their quarrels , their passions , always present me with something new ; for which rea- son , when weary with labour , my common place place of rest is under my locust - tree , 34 SITUATION , & c . OF AN.
... their industry , their quarrels , their passions , always present me with something new ; for which rea- son , when weary with labour , my common place place of rest is under my locust - tree , 34 SITUATION , & c . OF AN.
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... labour . In such excursions we only part for a while ; I am gen- erally sure to find them again the following fall . This elopement of theirs only adds to my rec- reations ; I know how to deceive even their superlative instinct ; nor do ...
... labour . In such excursions we only part for a while ; I am gen- erally sure to find them again the following fall . This elopement of theirs only adds to my rec- reations ; I know how to deceive even their superlative instinct ; nor do ...
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... in the hol- low of one of its principal limbs , which I care- fully sawed off and with a good deal of labour and industry brought it home , where I fixed it up up again in the same position in which I found AMERICAN FARMER . 37.
... in the hol- low of one of its principal limbs , which I care- fully sawed off and with a good deal of labour and industry brought it home , where I fixed it up up again in the same position in which I found AMERICAN FARMER . 37.
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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.