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... Europe , such as the primeval woods and countless lakes of the Adirondacks , the softer beauties of the Berkshire Hills , the Hudson ( that grander American Rhine ) , the Swiss - like White Moun- tains , the Catskills , the mystic ...
... Europe , such as the primeval woods and countless lakes of the Adirondacks , the softer beauties of the Berkshire Hills , the Hudson ( that grander American Rhine ) , the Swiss - like White Moun- tains , the Catskills , the mystic ...
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... European painters that have found a resting - place in America , where there is at least one public picture gallery and several private ones of the first class , the best efforts of American painters , and perhaps still more those of ...
... European painters that have found a resting - place in America , where there is at least one public picture gallery and several private ones of the first class , the best efforts of American painters , and perhaps still more those of ...
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... Europe are as much mistaken as those who look to her for the fresh ingenuousness of youth unmarred by any trace of age's weakness . It is simply inevitable that she should share the vices as well as the virtues of both . Mr. Freeman has ...
... Europe are as much mistaken as those who look to her for the fresh ingenuousness of youth unmarred by any trace of age's weakness . It is simply inevitable that she should share the vices as well as the virtues of both . Mr. Freeman has ...
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... Europe and nowhere found such want of sympathy between the rich → and poor as in America . If this were true it would cer- tainly form a startling contrast to the general kind- heartedness of the American . But I fancy it rather points ...
... Europe and nowhere found such want of sympathy between the rich → and poor as in America . If this were true it would cer- tainly form a startling contrast to the general kind- heartedness of the American . But I fancy it rather points ...
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... and convent which vied in quaint picturesqueness with anything in Europe ; but , alas ! the old monk who showed us round , though wear- ing the regulation gown and knotted cord , had replaced 20 The Land of Contrasts.
... and convent which vied in quaint picturesqueness with anything in Europe ; but , alas ! the old monk who showed us round , though wear- ing the regulation gown and knotted cord , had replaced 20 The Land of Contrasts.
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Page 88 - O wad some pow'r the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us ! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion : What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n Devotion ! ADDRESS TO EDINBURGH.
Page 183 - The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth, — The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity.
Page 10 - Americans invented the slang word 'kicker,' but so far as I could see, their vocabulary is here miles ahead of their practice; they dream noble deeds, but do not do them; Englishmen 'kick' much better without having a name for it.
Page 37 - So comparing them with the people of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, one discovers more varieties between individuals in these European peoples than one finds in America. Scotchmen and Irishmen are more unlike Englishmen, the native of Normandy more unlike the native of Provence, the Pomeranian more unlike the Wurtemberger, the Piedmontese more unlike the Neapolitan, the Basque more unlike the Andalusian, than the American from any part of the country is to the American from any other.
Page 274 - ... than by the class, a breezy indifference to authority and a positive predilection for innovation, a marked alertness of mind, and a manifold variety of interest — above all, an inextinguishable hopefulness and courage. It is easy to lay one's finger in America upon almost every one of the great defects of civilization — even those defects which are specially characteristic of the civilization of the Old World.
Page 90 - If an Englishman has a mile to go to an appointment he will take his leisurely twenty minutes to do the distance, and then settle his business in two or three dozen sentences; an American is much more likely to devour the ground in five minutes, and then spend an hour or more in lively conversation not wholly pertinent to the matter in hand...
Page 23 - India by showing on the facts of 1840 that ' though British India may appear on the one hand to have less need of a lex loci than any other country, because the great mass of its population consists of two sects whose law is contained in their religion, yet on the other hand there is probably no country in the world which contains so many people who, if there is no law of the place, have no law whatever.
Page 201 - March 23, 1899, is hereby again amended so as to read as follows: The Board of Health hereby adjudges that the deposit of sputum in public places is. a nuisance, source of filth and cause of sickness, and hereby orders: That spitting upon the floor, platform or steps of any railroad or railway station...
Page 176 - I was not asked if I should like to come, I have not seen my host here since I came, Or had a word of welcome in his name. Some say that we shall never see him, and some That we shall see him elsewhere, and then know Why we were bid. How long I am to stay I have not the least notion. None, they say, Was ever told when he should come or go. But every now and then there bursts upon The song and mirth a lamentable noise, A sound of shrieks and sobs, that strikes our joys Dumb in our breasts; and then,...
Page 62 - Europeans have of late years begun to render a well-deserved admiration to the brightness and vivacity of American ladies. Those who know the work they have done and are doing in many a noble cause will admire still more their energy, their courage, their self-devotion. No country seems to owe more to its women than America does, nor to owe to them so much of what is best in social institutions and in the beliefs that govern conduct.