 | Henry Robert Murray Landis - 1901 - 32 pàgines
...the University of Pennsylvania, assumed the editorial chair, and, stung by Sydney Smith's gibe — " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? what does the world yet owe to an American physician or surgeon?" — he adopted it as the motto... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 pàgines
...pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. Eeview ofSeybert's Annals of the United Statts, 1820. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? ibid. Magnificent spectacle of human happiness. America. Edinburyh Eeview, July, 1824. In the midst... | |
 | James Gregory Mumford - 1903 - 516 pàgines
...arts, for literature, or even for the statesmanlike studies of politics and political economy. ... 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? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons?... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 432 pàgines
...some very hard, and, for the most part, well-deserved criticism. In 1818 he inquired in the Review: " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book or goes to an American play ? " A few years later Washington Irving and Fenimore Cooper made the gibe stingless. He never forgave... | |
 | William Peter Pearce - 1903 - 368 pàgines
...and honored by all nations. In the year 1820 Sydney Smith, of England, asked the famous questions, "In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? or looks at an American picture, or statue? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes... | |
 | Henry Kanegsberg (ed) - 1904 - 276 pàgines
...preceding the birth of the Republican party, when that great wit and great writer, Sydney Smith, asked, In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American...What does the world yet owe to American physicians and surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered or what old ones have they analyzed?... | |
 | Milton W. Blumenberg - 1904 - 310 pàgines
...preceding the birth of the Republican party, when that great wit and great writer, Sydney Smith, asked, In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American...What does the world yet owe to American physicians and surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered or what old ones have they analyzed?... | |
 | 1904 - 302 pàgines
...preceding the birth of the Republican party, when that great wit and great writer, Sydney Smith, asked, In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American...What does the world yet owe to American physicians and surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered or what old ones have they analyzed?... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1904 - 750 pàgines
...and flippant attacks of several foreign travellers." The date of Sydney Smith's celebrated epigram, " who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? " is 1820. Nine years afterward, when Mr. Alexander Everett returned from Spain in 1829, he assumed... | |
 | Howard Malcolm Jenkins - 1903 - 668 pàgines
...the Medical and Physical Sciences," printed on its title page the malicious fling of Sydney Smith : "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? What does the \vorld yet owe to an American physician or surgeon?" And abundantly well has this great... | |
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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? 
