 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...little of him ; a small voluntary salary to the minister, and gratitude to God; can he refuse these ? The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles;...toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence.—This is an American. NANTUCKET CUSTOMS A CENTURY AGO. [From the Same.'] THE manners... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1897 - 568 pages
...little of him,—a small voluntary salary to the minister, and gratitude to God: can he refuse these ? The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles;...toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence.—This is an American." ' It is probable that not many passages in these letters were... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - History - 1899 - 482 pages
...little of him ; a small voluntary salary to the minister, and gratitude to God ; can he refuse these? The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles...idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence. — This... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...appeared, and which hereafter will become distinct by the power of the different climates they inhabit. The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles...idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence. — This... | |
 | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur - Nantucket (Mass.) - 1904 - 412 pages
...little of him ; a small voluntary salary to the minister, and gratitude to God; can he refuse these? The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles;...idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence. — This... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor, Fletcher Willis Hewes - United States - 1905 - 594 pages
...appeared and which hereafter will become distinct by the power of the different climates they inhabit. The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles;...idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence. — This... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1906 - 876 pages
...little of him; a small voluntary salary to the minister, and gratitude to God; can he refuse these? The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles...servile dependence, penury, and useless labor, he passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence. — This is an American.... | |
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The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. 
