The American People: A Study in National Psychology, المجلد 1Houghton Mifflin, 1911 - 446 من الصفحات |
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... say more would be merely to reproduce in amplified form what has already been stated . To prove a negative is an im- possibility ; and my critics have contented them- selves with questioning my deductions without bringing evidence to ...
... say more would be merely to reproduce in amplified form what has already been stated . To prove a negative is an im- possibility ; and my critics have contented them- selves with questioning my deductions without bringing evidence to ...
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... says , " The West was won by those who have been rightly called the Roundheads of the South , the same men who , before any others , declared for Amer- ican independence . " There is a library of very fair proportions on the Scotch and ...
... says , " The West was won by those who have been rightly called the Roundheads of the South , the same men who , before any others , declared for Amer- ican independence . " There is a library of very fair proportions on the Scotch and ...
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... says , " All the wolves , foxes , and aboriginal domestic dogs have their feet broader than in the correspond- ing species of the Old World , and well calculated for running on the snow " ; and this , he remarks , is necessary , as the ...
... says , " All the wolves , foxes , and aboriginal domestic dogs have their feet broader than in the correspond- ing species of the Old World , and well calculated for running on the snow " ; and this , he remarks , is necessary , as the ...
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... says that the book " comprises nothing less than an attempt to elucidate the psychology of the Ameri- can people . Most of us would be inclined at the outset , perhaps , to pronounce such a task impossible of accomplishment . The ...
... says that the book " comprises nothing less than an attempt to elucidate the psychology of the Ameri- can people . Most of us would be inclined at the outset , perhaps , to pronounce such a task impossible of accomplishment . The ...
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... say that as I have been unable to discover in early American institutions any trace of any influence other than English , so now I have been equally unable to find that the character of the mind or the ethical concept of the American ...
... say that as I have been unable to discover in early American institutions any trace of any influence other than English , so now I have been equally unable to find that the character of the mind or the ethical concept of the American ...
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الصفحة 41 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Straits ; — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
الصفحة 181 - Then, Sir, from these six capital sources; of descent; of form of government; of religion in the northern provinces; of manners in the southern; of education; of the remoteness of situation from the first mover of government; from all these causes a fierce spirit of liberty has grown up. It has grown with the growth of the people in your colonies, and increased with the increase of their wealth; a spirit, that unhappily meeting with an exercise of power in England, which, however lawful, is not reconcilable...
الصفحة 181 - Three thousand miles of ocean lie between you and them. No contrivance can prevent the effect of this distance in weakening government. Seas roll, and months pass, between the order and the execution; and the want of a speedy explanation of a single point is enough to defeat a whole system.
الصفحة 182 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
الصفحة 180 - Americans a love of freedom is the predominating feature which marks and distinguishes the whole ; and, as an ardent is always a jealous affection, your colonies become suspicious, restive, and intractable, whenever they see the least attempt to wrest from them by force, or shuffle from them by chicane, what they think the only advantage worth living for. This fierce spirit of liberty is stronger in the English colonies, probably, than in any other people of the earth...
الصفحة 557 - So far from the position holding true, that great wit (or genius, in our modern way of speaking) has a necessary alliance with insanity, the greatest wits, on the contrary, will ever be found to be the sanest writers. It is impossible for the mind to conceive of a mad Shakspeare.
الصفحة 271 - European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations.
الصفحة 146 - That for these purposes they have power to make laws and lay and levy such general duties, imposts or taxes, as to them shall appear most equal and just (considering the ability and other circumstances of the inhabitants in the several colonies), and such as may be collected with the least inconvenience to the people, rather discouraging luxury, than loading industry with unnecessary burthens...
الصفحة 270 - What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country.
الصفحة 271 - Americans are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigour, and industry which began long since in the east; they will finish the great circle. The Americans were once scattered all over Europe; here they are incorporated into one of the finest systems of population which has ever appeared, and which will hereafter become distinct by the power of the different climates they inhabit.