 | 1908 - 828 páginas
...indebted for the quotation to Mr. Sparks) asked: "Why should Americans write books when a six-weeks passage brings them, in their own tongue our sense,...genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills are their natural objects for centuries to come." Franklin's Autobiography and Thoreau's... | |
 | Harry Perry Robinson - 1908 - 498 páginas
...indebted for the quotation to Mr. Sparks) asked : " Why should Americans write books when a six-weeks' passage brings them in their own tongue our sense,...genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, gristmills are their natural objects for centuries to come." Franklin's Autobiography and Thoreau's... | |
 | 1908 - 814 páginas
...indebted for the quotation to Mr. Sparks) asked: "Why should Americans write books when a six-weeks passage brings them, in their own tongue our sense,...genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills are their natural objects for centuries to come." the last few years, beginning to find... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1916 - 264 páginas
...some pieces of pleasantry by Mr. Irving. But why should the Americans write books, when a six week's passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense,...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... | |
 | 1921 - 878 páginas
...down the decades; but equally famous three generations ago were his two sentences of 1818: Why should Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings...genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. Wrathful answers to these two passages... | |
 | 1924 - 802 páginas
...States feel a justifiable pride; comparing, as they may, Sidney Smith's verdict in 1818, "Why should Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings...genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills are their natural objects for centuries to come," with the London Spectator reviewer's... | |
 | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 1902 - 884 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...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... | |
 | R.T. Bienvenu, M. Feingold - 1990 - 320 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 hogs-heads? Prairies, steam-boats, gristmills, are their natural objects for centuries to come.4 There was then no "American civilization",... | |
 | John Lloyd Stephens, Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen - 1996 - 566 páginas
...American author. "But why should they anyway," questioned the English critic Sydney Smith, "why should Americans write books when a six weeks' passage brings them in their own language our sense, our science and genius in bales and hogsheads. ... In the four quarters of the... | |
 | Hershel Parker - 2008 - 250 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... | |
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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. 
