America and French Culture, 1750-1848University of North Carolina Press, 1927 - 615 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 372 - he was no bigot, and could hear a prayer from a gentleman of piety and virtue, who was at the same time a friend to his country.
الصفحة 50 - I know no country in which there is so little true independence of mind and freedom of discussion as in America.
الصفحة 43 - It is to be found in the fact that, during almost the whole existence of this government, we have shaped our industry, our navigation, and our commerce, in reference to an extraordinary war in Europe, and to foreign markets, which no longer exist...
الصفحة 553 - I have sent to General Marshall Judge Addison's charge to the grand juries of the county courts of the Fifth Circuit of the State of Pennsylvania...
الصفحة 65 - The characteristics of the American journalist consist in an open and coarse appeal to the passions of the populace; and he habitually abandons the principles of political science to assail the characters of individuals, to track them into private life, and disclose all their weaknesses and errors. Nothing can be more deplorable than this abuse of the powers of thought...
الصفحة 43 - We must speedily adopt a genuine American policy. Still cherishing the foreign market, let us create also a home market, to give further scope to the consumption of the produce of American industry.
الصفحة 171 - I have known my own to be during some of my peregrinations, and his lank black hair hung loosely over his shoulders. "His forehead was so broad and prominent that any tyro in phrenology would instantly have pronounced it the residence of a mind of strong powers.
الصفحة 350 - Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention...
الصفحة 289 - Essay was written within two years of the end of the eighteenth century. At the beginning of the nineteenth century evolution was very definitely "in the air".
الصفحة 313 - I saw upon the stage shocked me ; the dresses and beauty of the performers were enchanting; but, no sooner did the dance commence, than I felt my delicacy wounded, and I was ashamed to be seen to look at them.- Girls, clothed in the thinnest silk and gauze, with their petticoats short, springing two feet from the floor, poising themselves in the air, with their feet flying, and as perfectly showing their garters and drawers as though no petticoat had been worn, was a sight altogether new to me.