 | 1820 - 590 Seiten
...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What... | |
 | 1823 - 1126 Seiten
...(published quarterly, each Number containing upwards of 220 pages), taken from the Edinburgh Review: — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the-world yet owe to American Physicians and Surgeons ?" If... | |
 | 1847 - 662 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...throw into the hands of government, will invest it with so vast an miïuence, and hold out such means the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world and temptations to corruption, as all the virtue... | |
 | Obadiah Rich - 1846 - 530 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...we know there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? Or goes to an American play ? Or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What... | |
 | American Institute of the City of New York - 1850 - 572 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 498 Seiten
...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this selfadulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What... | |
 | 1857 - 992 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 482 Seiten
...we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulating race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What... | |
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In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue... 
