 Unless the present progress of change be arrested, by an increase of taste and judgment in the more educated classes, there can be no doubt that, in another century, the dialect of the Americans will become utterly unintelligible to an Englishman, and...  Men and Manners in America - Page 129by Thomas Hamilton - 1833 - 410 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Hamilton - Canada - 1833 - 840 pages
...gratuitously degraded. Unless the present progress of change be arrested, by an increase of taste and judgment in the more educated classes, there can be...contemplate such an event with complacency, let them go on and prosper; they have only to "progress" in their present course, and their grandchildren bid... | |
 | Thomas Hamilton - 1833 - 428 pages
...gratuitously degraded. Unless the present progress of change be arrested, by an increase of taste and judgment in the more educated classes, there can be...contemplate such an event with complacency, let them go on and prosper ; they have only to "progress" in their present course, and their grandchildren bid... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1834 - 574 pages
...the present progress of change be arrested by an increase of taste and judgment in the more (better) educated classes, there can be no doubt that in another...arising from their participation in British literature.' Within the limited compass of our reading, we hardly recollect an example of a conclusion, that stands... | |
 | Henry Louis Mencken - Americanisms - 1921 - 526 pages
...gratuitously degraded. Unless the present progress of change be arrested, by an increase of taste and judgment in the more educated classes, there can be...they contemplate such an event with complacency, let tliem go on and prosper; they have only to progress in their present course, and their grandchildren... | |
 | Jane Louise Mesick - United States - 1922 - 400 pages
...of. '' Unless the present progress of taste be arrested," we are told, "by an increase of taste and judgment in the more educated classes, there can be...that the nation will be cut off from the advantages "2 Hamilton, I, 228. arising from their participation in British literature. If they contemplate such... | |
 | English language - 1989 - 484 pages
...utmost purity an Englishman can't understand me at all." Mark Twain, The Stolen White Elephant, 1882 "In another century, the dialect of the Americans...will become utterly unintelligible to an Englishman." Captain Thomas Hamilton, Men and Manners in Vive la Difference! The July 1977 issue of the Forum devoted... | |
 | Jeffrey Kacirk - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2005 - 260 pages
...conditions of men. . . . Unless the present progress of change be arrested by an increase of taste and judgment in the more educated classes, there can be...arising from their participation in British literature. —English army captain Thomas Hamilton's Men and Manners in America (1833) under hatches When in trouble... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1834 - 574 pages
...the present 'progress of change be arrested by an increase of taste and judgment in the more (better) educated classes, there can be no doubt that in another...arising from their participation in British literature.' Within the limited compass of our reading, we hardly recollect an example of a conclusion, that stands... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1834 - 426 pages
...his "natural feeling at finding the language of Shakspeare and Milton gratuitously degraded." He says that " in another century the dialect of the Americans...will become utterly unintelligible to an Englishman, unless the present progress of change be arrested." We do not anticipate any such catastrophe, unless... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1834 - 434 pages
..."natural feeling at finding; the language of Shakspeare and Milton gratuitously degraded." He says that " in another century the dialect of the Americans...will become utterly unintelligible to an Englishman, unless the present progress of change be arrested." We do not anticipate any such catastrophe, unless... | |
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