| 1820 - 558 pages
...have spread themselves over the world from our little island in the course of the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions,...parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulatiog race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an... | |
| 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
...have spread themselves over the world from our little island in the course of the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions,...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced ttom. the whole annals of this self-adulating, »ace. In new substances have their chemists discovered?... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pages
...the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind "•'Ó Ó« , „ by their worts, inveutions, or examples? In so far as we know, there is no such parallel to be produced Horn the whole annals of this «elf-adulating race. la IRELAND. (EDINBURGH REVIEW, 1820.) 1. Wliitdaw's... | |
| 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... | |
| American Institute of the City of New York - 1850 - 572 pages
...overthrow of our manufactures. After which we find the Edinburgh Review thus discoursing about us : — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book 1 or goes to an American play 1 or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet... | |
| 1857 - 992 pages
...the arts, for literatore, or even for the statesmen-like studies of politics, or political economy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" At a later period, he says : " There appears not at this moment in America one man of any considerable... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1856 - 784 pages
...the 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 ?" At a later period, he says: "There appears not at this moment in America one man of any considerable... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1857 - 866 pages
...Crubbes — their Siddonses, Kemballs, Keans, or O'Neils — their Wilkiea, Lawrences, or Chantreys? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book 1 or goes to an American play J or looks at an American statue or picture 1 What does the world yet... | |
| George Francis Train - 1857 - 428 pages
...have spread themselves over the world from our little island in the course of the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or examples ? In EO far as we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating... | |
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