| 1820 - 558 pages
...the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or examples ? In so far as we know, there is no such 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... | |
| 1823 - 1126 pages
...(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...looks at an American picture or statue? What does the-world yet owe to American Physicians and Surgeons ?" If Dr. Chapman wishes to demonstrate the injustice... | |
| 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
...years, and blest or delighted mankind "•'У У« , „ 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... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1845 - 530 pages
...the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or examples? In so far as we know, there is no such parallel to be produced...American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? AY hat does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? AVhat new substances have their... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 pages
...thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or examples ? In so far us we know, there is no such parallel to be produced...race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an AmencMl book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at :m American picture or statue ? What does... | |
| 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... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1850 - 736 pages
...the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or examples ? In so far as 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 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... | |
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