| 1819 - 610 pages
...farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. " In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 476 pages
...upon a cultivated mind. ' In rural occupations/ says Mr. Irving f and it needs little qualifying) ' there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man...natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such... | |
| Washington Irving - 1820 - 364 pages
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such... | |
| Washington Irving - 1822 - 424 pages
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....natural grandeur and beauty; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such... | |
| Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...> ' i '' ' >' In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It loads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such... | |
| Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating o£_external influences. Such... | |
| 1819 - 606 pages
...general system I have mentioned. " In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing It lead» a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such... | |
| 1828 - 394 pages
...delights to visit a cottage, it must be the cottage of an English peasant. LESSON XLII. Rural Occupation. IN rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and' most elevating of external influences. Such... | |
| Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1833 - 288 pages
...dew, and I was chilled by the breath of evening. I arose, and returned to the inn. LESSON V. liiii-tit Life in England. IN rural occupation, there is...natural grandeur and beauty; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such... | |
| Washington Irving - 1834 - 320 pages
...farmers. These, however, I believe, are H 2 but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such... | |
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