 | Education - 1920 - 706 pages
...new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury,...rewarded by ample subsistence. This is an American." Contrast this wisdom of the generous Frenchman with the boastful Kultur lessons of the Teutonic intellectuals,... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury,...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
...new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury,...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... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature,...by ample subsistence. — This is an American." The contrast between these two passages is sharp. Hopkinson's American is, after all, a human being ; Crevecoeur's... | |
 | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, William Peterfield Trent, Ludwig Lewisohn - Nantucket (Mass.) - 1904 - 418 pages
...ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature,...rewarded by ample subsistence. — This is an American. . British America is divided into many provinces, forming a large association, scattered along a coast... | |
 | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, William Peterfield Trent, Ludwig Lewisohn - Nantucket (Mass.) - 1904 - 412 pages
...ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature,...rewarded by ample subsistence. — This is an American. British America is divided into many provinces, forming a large association, scattered along a coast... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor, Fletcher Willis Hewes - United States - 1905 - 594 pages
...ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature,...rewarded by ample subsistence. — This is an American." Colonel William Byrd of Westover, Virginia, was a breezy gentleman who wrote with much humor _..„.... | |
 | Lucian John Fosdick - French - 1906 - 500 pages
...ideas, and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labour, he has passed to toils of a very different nature,...rewarded by ample subsistence. This is an American." 'CELE RRAT10X OP Tfl K 'ADOCTION Or THS CUNS1I I'UliOM IN 1788 \Tki mtul imfazint fart «/ tin tarp""... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1906 - 876 pages
...and form new opinions. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labor, he passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded by ample subsistence. — This is an American. OFFICERS OF CHAUTAUQUA LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC CIRCLE JOHN H. VINCENT, Chancellor. GEORGE E. VINCENT,... | |
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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. From involuntary idleness, servile dependence, penury, and useless labor, he has passed to toils of a very different nature, rewarded... 
