 He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad...  American Literature - Page 138by Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Towill Rutt - 1832 - 584 pages
...that the people " who know their rights, and knowing dare maintain" them, are rapidly increasing ' Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will, one day, cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
 | 1904 - 1220 pages
...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will some day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along... | |
 | 1906 - 560 pages
...Richard is echoed no less sonorously a few years later by the Frenchman Crevecceur: "Here individu-* als of all nations are melted into a new race of men,...posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." If a nation so mingled and moulded is now becoming in turn aggressively cosmopolitan, it is but a natural... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 598 pages
...rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. " Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 604 pages
...rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. " Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
 | William Cranston Lawton - 1902 - 398 pages
...the Frenchman Crevecreur so well says, even in his idyllic picture of life before the Revolution, " Here individuals of all nations are melted into a...posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." Steadily men's thoughts turned more and more to a federated continental state. In this molding of a... | |
 | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur - 1904 - 412 pages
...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
 | J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur - 1904 - 404 pages
...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
 | William Estabrook Chancellor, Fletcher Willis Hewes - 1905 - 594 pages
...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
 | 1906 - 548 pages
...prophecy of Poor Richard is echoed no less sonorously a few years later by the Frenchman Crevecceur: "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a...posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." If a nation so mingled and moulded is now becoming in turn aggressively cosmopolitan, it is but a natural... | |
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