The Stranger in America: Comprising Sketches of the Manners, Society, and National Peculiarities of the United States, Volum 1Richard Bentley, 1835 - 310 sider |
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Side 80 - And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowls of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an helpmeet for him.
Side 272 - ... of modern times, of the coronations of emperors whose bones repose by its side ; on whose borders stand the two grandest monuments of the noble architecture of the middle ages; whose banks present every variety of wild and picturesque rocks, thick forests, fertile plains, vineyards sometimes gently sloping, sometimes perched among lofty crags, where industry has won a domain among the fortresses of nature; whose banks are ornamented with populous cities, flourishing towns and villages, castles...
Side 272 - As it flows down from the distant ridges of the Alps, through fertile regions into the open sea, so it comes down from remote antiquity, associated in every age with momentous events.in the history of the neighbouring nations.
Side 64 - Roscoe celebrates the mother who dared to return to nature.* But who invented the distaff? When was the complicated process of making bread completely discovered? Is it certain that Ctesebes contrived the pump? A bold man, indeed, he must have been who first conceived the idea of nailing a piece of iron to the hoof of a living animal. We forget the file, the knife, the sail, the rudder, when we talk of our improvements. We forget what ingenuity was requisite to hit upon the idea of milking a cow,...
Side 101 - Americans cherish the memory of their descent, and their intimate connexion with Europe. In many families, cups, plates, chairs are shown you, which their forefathers brought over from your part of the world. Two large yew trees, cut in the stiff and cramped style of the period of Louis XIV., and Brought from Europe at the beginning of the last century, are fondly and justly nursed in the garden of a friend of mine ; and a merchant told me, that when he lately received from a family in Guatimala...
Side 59 - However, who does not or ought not to improve in the latter way by travelling? Certainly, neither John nor Jonathan is here excepted. Gothe says, " He who is ignorant of foreign languages is ignorant of his own.
Side 132 - I ever heard, are in this country.* Before I close my chapter on American beauty — a chapter which, I dare say, has proved very unsatisfactory to you, although I gave you fair warning that it is very difficult for a conscientious writer to generalize such things — I must mention the fact, that American women make most exemplary wives and mothers, and strange, be a girl ever so coquettish — yea, even a positive flirt, who in Europe, would unavoidably make her future husband unhappy as soon as...
Side 87 - You can judge from what I have said how valuable German immigrants are to our country, if they mingle with the Anglo-American race. 'They are sober, industrious, and excellent farmers', is the universal belief given of them." be gathered from the remarks which Isling makes while accompanying Morton to Bethlehem. Passing through a wonderful stretch of country studded with flourishing farms and prospering towns, he says : 10"These thousands of cottages, these towns and yeoman seats, I knew when they...
Side 128 - Roman ladies and the Tyrolese men ; but I call the whole English nation a handsome one. The very first time I took a walk in London, I was struck with the beautiful children even in that confined city; a handsome English boy of ten years is one of the flowers of creation. Go even to the London 'Change ; among the merchants, who, with other nations, surely do not exhibit many specimens of beauty, you find there tall, well-shaped, fine-looking men, whom Frederic I. would have put directly into the...
Side 127 - Recamier or Tallien, or the beautiful Albanian, when I saw her in Rome, or even as you find many in the higher ranks in England, or those noble faces, necks, and figures of the women in the marine villages near Gensano, which made a Thorwaldson rave * — beauties which