 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Q. Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1848 - 558 páginas
...have before referred. In the paragraph immediately succeeding the oue we have quoted, he continues: "But why should the Americans write books, when a...passage brings them in their own tongue, our sense, genius, and science in bales and hogsheads. Prairies, Bteaiu boats and grist mills, are their natural... | |
 | 1857 - 992 páginas
...wrote some poems, and his baptismal name was Timothy. There is also a small account of Virginia by Jefferson, and an Epic by Joel Barlow ; and some pieces...sense, science, and genius, in bales and hogsheads. They have made no approaches to the heroic, either in their morality or their character. Since the... | |
 | 1852 - 498 páginas
...There is also a small account of Virginia by Jefferson, and an epic by Joel "Barlow; and some piecea of pleasantry by Mr. Irving. But why should the Americans...six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, oar sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 482 páginas
...wrote some poems ; and his baptismal name was Timothy. There is also a small account of Virginia, by Jefferson, and an epic by Joel Barlow ; and some pieces...genius, in bales and hogsheads ? Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. Then, when they have got to the Pacific... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1856 - 784 páginas
...wrote some poems, and his baptismal name was Timothy. There is also a small account of Virginia by Jefferson, and an Epic by Joel Barlow; and some pieces...sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads. They have made no approaches to the heroic, either in their morality or their character. Since the... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1859 - 282 páginas
...wrote some poems; and his baptismal name was Timothy. There is also a small account of Virginia, by Jefferson, and an epic by Joel Barlow; and some pieces...genius, in bales and hogsheads ? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. Then, when they have got to the Pacific... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1859 - 386 páginas
...There is also a small account of Virginia by Jefferson, and an epic by Joel Barlow ; and some pieces oi pleasantry by Mr. Irving. But why should the Americans...genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. Then, when they have got to the Pacific... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 páginas
...Review" thus wrote :' — " Literature, the Americans have none ; no native literature, we mean. * * * But why should the Americans write books, when a six...sense, science, and genius, in bales and hogsheads ?" At this very plain language, which had a good deal of truth in it, we were much and very foolishly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 páginas
...Review" thus wrote i1 — " Literature, the Americans have none ; no native literature, we mean. * * * But why should the Americans write books, when a six...sense, science, and genius, in bales and hogsheads ?" At this very plain language, which had a good deal of truth in it, we were much and very foolishly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 páginas
...Revicw" thus wrote :1 — " Literature, the Americans have none ; no native literature, we mean. ss * But why should the Americans write books, when a six...passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, scicnce, and genins, in bales and hogsheads ?" At this very plain language, which had a good deal of... | |
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But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science, and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. 
