 | American Institute of the City of New York - 1850 - 572 pàgines
...overthrow of our manufactures. After which we find the Edinburgh Review thus discoursing about us : — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book 1 or goes to an American play 1 or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet... | |
 | 1852 - 498 pàgines
...have been foreigners than ever occurred before in the history of any civilized and educated people. During the thirty or forty years of their independence,...statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy. Confining ourselves to our own country, and to the period that has elapsed since they had an independent... | |
 | 1857 - 992 pàgines
...foreigners, than ever occurred before in the history of any civilised and educated people. During the years of their independence, they have done absolutely nothing for the sciences, for the arts, for literatore, or even for the statesmen-like studies of politics, or political economy. In the four quarters... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1856 - 784 pàgines
...foreigners, than ever occurred before in the history of any civilized and educated people. During the years of their independence, they have done absolutely...quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" At a later period, he says: "There appears not at this moment in America one man of any considerable... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 pàgines
...have been foreigners than ever occurred before in the history of any civilized and educated people. During the thirty or forty years of their independence,...statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy. Confining ourselves to our own country, and to the period that has elapsed since they had an independent... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 482 pàgines
...have been foreigners than ever occurred before in the history of any civilized and educated people. During the thirty or forty years of their independence,...Literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of Polities or Political Economy. Confining ourselves to our own countiy, and to the period that has elapsed... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1857 - 866 pàgines
...Crubbes — their Siddonses, Kemballs, Keans, or O'Neils — their Wilkiea, Lawrences, or Chantreys? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book 1 or goes to an American play J or looks at an American statue or picture 1 What does the world yet... | |
 | George Francis Train - 1857 - 428 pàgines
...know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. '' In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe... | |
 | B. J. Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 pàgines
...trenchant articles in the Edinburgh Review, in the following contemptuous and illiberal strain : " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet... | |
 | Francis Fulford - 1859 - 120 pàgines
...hitherto given no indications of genius, and made no approaches to the heroic, either in their morality or their character. * * During the thirty or forty years...Statesmanlike studies of Politics or Political Economy. Confining ourselves to our own country, and to the period that has elapsed, since they had an independent... | |
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In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue... 
