| 1820 - 590 pages
...have been foreigners, than ever occurred before in the history of any civilized and educated people. During the thirty or forty years of their independence,...statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy. Confining ourselves to our own country, and to the period that has elapsed since t/tei/ had an independent... | |
| 1820 - 558 pages
...compass of the United States, ' there is no mental energy-*— no literary genius ;' ' nothing done for the sciences ; for the arts ; for literature ;...even ' for the statesman-like studies of politics and political economy.' — This is not the time, nor is it the place, to go into an investigation... | |
| 1823 - 1126 pages
...(published quarterly, each Number containing upwards of 220 pages), taken from the Edinburgh Review: — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the-world yet... | |
| 1847 - 662 pages
...names of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, and Milton. Yes ; although Sidney Smith's taunting question, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" may now be more satisfactorily answered than when it was first propounded ; although we can produce... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pages
...ever occurred before in the history of any civilized and educated people. During the thirty or 'fort y years of their independence, they have done absolutely...Literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of Politico or Political Economy. Confining our selves to our own country, and to the period that has... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pages
...than ever occurred before in the history of any civilized and educated people. During the thirty ears of their independence, they have done absolutely nothing for the Sciences, for the Arts, for Literaturey or even for the statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy. Confining our... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1845 - 706 pages
...people. During the^jthirty or forty years of their independence, they have done absolutely no thing_for_ the Sciences, for the Arts, for Literature, or even...statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy. Confining ourselves to our own country, and to the period that has elapsed since they had an independent... | |
| Obadiah Rich - 1846 - 530 pages
...is in a review of this work in the Edinburgh Review (xzxiii. p. 79), that the question is asked, " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book?" &c. 36' A FULL AND CORRECT AccoUNTof the Military Occurrences of the late War between Great Britain... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pages
...have been foreigners, than ever occurred before in the history of any civilised and educated people. During the thirty or forty years of their independence,...statesman-like studies of politics or political economy. Confining ourselves to our own country, and to the period that has elapsed since they had an independent... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1850 - 736 pages
...have been foreigners, than ever occurred before in the history of any civilised and educated people. During the thirty or forty years of their independence, they have done absolutely nothing for the Science*, for the Arts, for Literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of Politics or Political... | |
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