...Freedom, Government, Great Britain, Liberty, Newspapers, Patriotism, Philistinism, Public Opinion. 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 ? 122 Sydney Smith: Review on...

...is just sixty years since Sidney Smith, castigating our national habit of self-adulation, asked: " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? . . . Under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his...

...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,...absolutely nothing for the sciences, for the arts, tor literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of politics or political economy. Confining...

...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,...they have done absolutely nothing for the sciences, fur the arts, for literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of politics or political economy....

...our country? The Americans are brave and industrious, but they have given no indications of genius. During the thirty or forty years of their independence they have done nothing for the sciences, for the arts, for literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of politics...

...evident in all departments. In the ' ' Edinburgh Review " of 1 820, Sydney Smith asked the question : "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? ' ' America smarted under the question which she could not answer, for at that day there was no book...

...An' risen up Earth's Greatest Nation. /. LOWELL — The Biglow Papers. Second Series. No. 7. St. 21. lowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, And w ? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? g. SYDNEY SMITH— Works....

...forgive, divine." 21. "With all thy faults, I love thee still." 22. "What will Mrs. Grundy say? " 23. " 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 ? " 24. " Let every man mind...

...in alluding to our alleged slow intellectual development, as a nation, sneeringly remarked : — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play ; or looks upon an American picture or statue ? Who drinks out of American...

...little more is called for. "GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY." — Seventy years ago Sidney Smith wrote : "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at one American picture or statue ? " Now, the aspect has all...