 | Edwin Erle Sparks - 1900 - 470 páginas
...were felt to have reached positive insult in an article which asked, "But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them...sense, science and genius in bales and hogsheads. Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come." Like most young... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 618 páginas
...one epic by Joel Barlow, and some pieces of pleasantry by Mr. Irving. But why should the Americans write books when a six weeks' passage brings them...sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, gristmills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. By and by, when... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1900 - 618 páginas
...one epic by Joel Barlow, and some pieces of pleasantry by Mr. Irving. But why should the Americans write books when a six weeks' passage brings them...sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, gristmills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. By and by, when... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - 1904 - 522 páginas
...history of their expedition. " But why should the Americans write books," asked the Edinburgh Review, ' ' when a six weeks' passage brings them in their own...sense, science, and genius in bales and -hogsheads. Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills are their natural objects for centuries to come." The crudity of... | |
 | Edwin Erle Sparks - 1904 - 562 páginas
...history of their expedition. " But why should the Americans write books," asked the Edinburgh Review, "when a six weeks' passage brings them in their own...sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads. Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills are their natural objects for centuries to come." The crudity of... | |
 | Harry Perry Robinson - 1908 - 494 páginas
...the Edinburgh Review (I am indebted for the quotation to Mr. Sparks) asked : " Why should Americans write books when a six- weeks' passage brings them...sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, gristmills are their natural objects for centuries to come." Franklin's Autob1ography... | |
 | Harry Perry Robinson - 1908 - 498 páginas
...indebted for the quotation to Mr. Sparks) asked : " Why should Americans write books when a six-weeks' passage brings them in their own tongue our sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, gristmills are their natural objects for centuries to come." Franklin's Autobiography... | |
 | 1908 - 828 páginas
...indebted for the quotation to Mr. Sparks) asked: "Why should Americans write books when a six-weeks passage brings them, in their own tongue our sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills are their natural objects for centuries to come." Franklin's Autobiography... | |
 | 1908 - 814 páginas
...indebted for the quotation to Mr. Sparks) asked: "Why should Americans write books when a six-weeks passage brings them, in their own tongue our sense, science, and genius in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills are their natural objects for centuries to come." the last few years,... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1916 - 264 páginas
...some pieces of pleasantry by Mr. Irving. But why should the Americans write books, when a six week's passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science, and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steamboats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. Then, when they... | |
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But why should the Americans write books, when a six weeks' passage brings them, in their own tongue, our sense, science and genius, in bales and hogsheads? Prairies, steam-boats, grist-mills, are their natural objects for centuries to come. 
