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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... rich bottom which lies before your door ? Had you never tried , you never had learned how to mend and make your ploughs . It will be no small pleasure to your ... rich man over at London , there would be no rich 16 INTRODUCTORY LETTER .
... rich bottom which lies before your door ? Had you never tried , you never had learned how to mend and make your ploughs . It will be no small pleasure to your ... rich man over at London , there would be no rich 16 INTRODUCTORY LETTER .
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... rich man over at London , there would be no end of the talk of the people ; some would vow that thee art going to turn an author , others would pretend to foresee some great alterations in the welfare of thy family ; some would say this ...
... rich man over at London , there would be no end of the talk of the people ; some would vow that thee art going to turn an author , others would pretend to foresee some great alterations in the welfare of thy family ; some would say this ...
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... rich and the poor are not so far removed from each other as they are in Europe . Some few towns excepted , we are all tillers of the earth , from Nova Scotia to West Florida . We are a peo- ple of cultivators , scattered over an immense ...
... rich and the poor are not so far removed from each other as they are in Europe . Some few towns excepted , we are all tillers of the earth , from Nova Scotia to West Florida . We are a peo- ple of cultivators , scattered over an immense ...
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... rich , the severity of the laws , with jails and punishments ; who owned not a single foot of the extensive surface of this planet ? No ! urged by a variety of motives , here they came . Every thing has tended to regenerate them ; new ...
... rich , the severity of the laws , with jails and punishments ; who owned not a single foot of the extensive surface of this planet ? No ! urged by a variety of motives , here they came . Every thing has tended to regenerate them ; new ...
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... being claimed , either by a despotic prince , a rich abbot , or a mighty lord . Here religion demands but little of him ; a small Lust . a small voluntary salary to the minister , and gratitude WHAT IS AN AMERICAN . 55.
... being claimed , either by a despotic prince , a rich abbot , or a mighty lord . Here religion demands but little of him ; a small Lust . a small voluntary salary to the minister , and gratitude WHAT IS AN AMERICAN . 55.
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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.