 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 752 pages
...under the foot . . . on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride (xxi. 311. 13). In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue? (xxi. 313. 26). SOLON : Laws are like cobwebs : if anything small or weak falls into them, they hold... | |
 | Frederic May Holland - 1899 - 280 pages
...Americans " have done absolutely nothing for the sciences,, for art, for literature." He went on to ask, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " His question was answered that same year by the publication in London of Irving's Rip Van Winkle... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 614 pages
...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. 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?... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 618 pages
...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. 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?... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 618 pages
...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. 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?... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 400 pages
...works, 1848-1850. Most of Irving's writings were published simultaneousiy in America and England. 1 "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play ? or looks at an American picture or American influences. His parents were natives of Great Britain; he owed most of his culture to prolonged... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 274 pages
...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book? or goes to see an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American... | |
 | Elbridge Streeter Brooks - 1900 - 446 pages
...done "absolutely nothing for the sciences, for art, for literature," and added the scornful query, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " -'-'.'--'/ revolutions, like armies on the march, advance with Pioneers in front . , . Such was... | |
 | Henry Robert Murray Landis - 1901 - 32 pages
...the University of Pennsylvania, assumed the editorial chair, and, stung by Sydney Smith's gibe — " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? what does the world yet owe to an American physician or surgeon?" — he adopted it as the motto... | |
 | 1901 - 558 pages
...amusement and disrelish as we have read it. It is the article in which he asks the nettling question, In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book? I have long felt, by the way, that Sydney Smith was extremely lucky in the date of his article, for... | |
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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? 
