Letters from an American FarmerFox, Duffield, 1904 - 355 страници |
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... ment . The knowledge which I acquired from your conversation has amply repaid me for your five weeks entertainment . I gave you nothing more than what common hospitality dictated ; but could any other guest have in- structed me as you ...
... ment . The knowledge which I acquired from your conversation has amply repaid me for your five weeks entertainment . I gave you nothing more than what common hospitality dictated ; but could any other guest have in- structed me as you ...
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... of their parents ; like them they grow up a mongrel breed , half civilized , half savage , ex- cept nature stamps on them some constitutional propensities . propensities . That rich , that voluptuous senti- ment is WHAT IS AN AMERICAN . 67.
... of their parents ; like them they grow up a mongrel breed , half civilized , half savage , ex- cept nature stamps on them some constitutional propensities . propensities . That rich , that voluptuous senti- ment is WHAT IS AN AMERICAN . 67.
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... ment is gone that struck them so forcibly ; the possession of their freeholds no longer conveys to their minds the same pleasure and pride . To all these reasons you must add , their lonely situation , and you cannot imagine what an ...
... ment is gone that struck them so forcibly ; the possession of their freeholds no longer conveys to their minds the same pleasure and pride . To all these reasons you must add , their lonely situation , and you cannot imagine what an ...
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... ment they obey , and the framers of their own laws , by means of their representatives . This is a thought which you have taught me to cherish cherish ; our difference from Europe , far from diminishing 72 WHAT IS AN AMERICAN .
... ment they obey , and the framers of their own laws , by means of their representatives . This is a thought which you have taught me to cherish cherish ; our difference from Europe , far from diminishing 72 WHAT IS AN AMERICAN .
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... ment , is become the good fortune of several ; many of those who have been transported as felons , are now rich , and strangers to the stings of those wants that urged them to vio- lations of the law : they are become industri- ous ...
... ment , is become the good fortune of several ; many of those who have been transported as felons , are now rich , and strangers to the stings of those wants that urged them to vio- lations of the law : they are become industri- ous ...
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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.