| Obadiah Rich - 1846 - 530 pągines
...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... | |
| American Institute of the City of New York - 1850 - 572 pągines
...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... | |
| George Francis Train - 1857 - 428 pągines
...inventions, or examples ? In so far at we know, there is DO guch parallel to be produced from the whulc annals of this self-adulating race. " In the four...an American book ? or goes to an American play? or lookf at an American picture or statue? What doef the world yet owe to American physicians or surMarryat... | |
| Henry Barnard - 1857 - 992 pągines
...Crabbcs — their Siddonses, Kemballs, Keans, or O'Neils — Ibeir Wilkies, Lawrences, or Chanlreys7 In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book 1 or goe« to an American play 1 or looks at an American rtatue or picture 1 What does the world yet... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1858 - 496 pągines
...for the Sciences, for the Arts, for Literatur' ”i even for the statesman-like studies of ! latives. spread themselves over the world from our little island...quarters of the globe, who reads an American book 1 or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1859 - 1358 pągines
...and blest or delimit*'! mankind by their works, inventions, or examples ? In so far as we know, ihere is no such parallel to be produced from the whole...race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an Amerküi book ? or goes to an American plav ' or looks at on American picture or statue ? What does... | |
| 1863 - 922 pągines
...years ago, a series of articles designed to answer, in the most practical manner, Sydney Smith's taunt, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" It was understood it the time that the writer had access to the most reliable sources for the figures... | |
| 1863 - 466 pągines
...years ago, a series of articles designed to answer, in the most practical manner, Sydney Smith's tannt, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" It was understood at the time that the writer had access to the most reliable sources for the figures... | |
| 1865 - 940 pągines
...Sydney Smith, as late as January, 1820, asked, in the " Edinburgh," that'wellknown and stingmg question, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " Even at -home, " Hesper " and " The Mount of Vision " soon faded out of sight. At that time, 1808... | |
| Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of New York - 1866 - 496 pągines
...the wilderness they supposed. Not many years since our English brethren thus expressed themselves : "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American play, or looks at an American picture? what doe-s the world yel owe. to American physicians or surgeons ?"* Since the writing of this quotation... | |
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