| Sydney Smith - 1889 - 470 pages
...statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy. — [E. /?. i82o.} WHAT HAS AMERICA DONE? — In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...substances have their chemists discovered? or what old ones have they analyzed ? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans... | |
| American Street Railway Association. Meeting - 1889 - 788 pages
...of the last thirty years, and blessed or delighted mankind by their works, inventions or examples ? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered ? What... | |
| American Street Railway Association - 1889 - 1092 pages
...of the last thirty years, and blessed or delighted mankind by their works, inventions or examples ? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered ? What... | |
| Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...Freedom, Government, Great Britain, Liberty, Newspapers, Patriotism, Philistinism, Public Opinion. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? 122 Sydney Smith: Review on Seybert's Annals oj the United States. America has proved that it is... | |
| 1889 - 934 pages
...snow half depend, o. SHELLEY — Sonnet. To the Nile. In the four quarters of the globe, who jeiuls an American book? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? yi. SYDNEY SMITH Review on Sfyberfx Annals of the United States. llule Britannia, Britannia rules... | |
| 1889 - 560 pages
...is just sixty years since Sidney Smith, castigating our national habit of self-adulation, asked: " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? . . . Under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his... | |
| John Bach McMaster - 1891 - 654 pages
...taunts were none the less galling because they were true : Who, in the four quarters of the globe, reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American painting or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances... | |
| Frederic May Holland - 1891 - 436 pages
...arts, for literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of politics or political economy." . . . "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " Twenty years, from the time when these words were written, sufficed to bring forward Emerson, Channing,... | |
| William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. e Devil, and ones have they analyzed ? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans... | |
| William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...¡in American book? or goes toan American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What docs the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances h;ive their chemists discovered? or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations bave... | |
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