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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... persons more enlightened and better educated than I am ; your predilection ex- cites my wonder much more than my vanity ; my share of the latter being confined merely to the neatness of my rural operations . My father left me a few ...
... persons more enlightened and better educated than I am ; your predilection ex- cites my wonder much more than my vanity ; my share of the latter being confined merely to the neatness of my rural operations . My father left me a few ...
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... ground ! wouldst thou pretend to letter it with a person who hath been to Paris , to the Alps , to Peters- burgh , and who hath seen so many fine things up up and down the old countries ; who hath come INTRODUCTORY LETTER . 3.
... ground ! wouldst thou pretend to letter it with a person who hath been to Paris , to the Alps , to Peters- burgh , and who hath seen so many fine things up up and down the old countries ; who hath come INTRODUCTORY LETTER . 3.
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... person ? Although he is a man of learning and taste , yet I am sure he will read your letters with pleasure : if they be not elegant , they will smell of the woods , and be a little wild ; I know your turn , turn , they will contain ...
... person ? Although he is a man of learning and taste , yet I am sure he will read your letters with pleasure : if they be not elegant , they will smell of the woods , and be a little wild ; I know your turn , turn , they will contain ...
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... persons are continually going to visit Italy.- That country is the daily resort of modern travellers . James . I should like to know what is there to be seen so goodly and profitable , that so many should wish to visit no other country ...
... persons are continually going to visit Italy.- That country is the daily resort of modern travellers . James . I should like to know what is there to be seen so goodly and profitable , that so many should wish to visit no other country ...
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... insignificant trifles to a person who has travelled through Europe and America , and is acquainted with books and with many sciences ; but such simple objects . of of contemplation suffice me , who have no time to AMERICAN FARMER . 45.
... insignificant trifles to a person who has travelled through Europe and America , and is acquainted with books and with many sciences ; but such simple objects . of of contemplation suffice me , who have no time to AMERICAN FARMER . 45.
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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.