 | Alexander Wilson, George Ord - 1828 - 442 pàgines
...and Mr. B., wished to be remembered to both. " My journey through almost the whole of New England has rather lowered the Yankees in my esteem. Except a...road dirty, and filled with loungers, brawling about law suits and politics — the people snappish, and extortioners, lazy, and two hundred years behind... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1844 - 558 pàgines
...and Mr. B., wished to be remembered to both. My journey through almost the whole of New England has rather lowered the Yankees in my esteem. Except a few neat academies, I found their school - houses equally ruinous and deserted with 2n4 -^=^---=-=== =•© ours; — fields covered... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1876 - 408 pàgines
...and Mr. B., wished to be remembered to both. My journey through almost the whole of New England has rather lowered the Yankees in my esteem. Except a...road dirty, and filled with loungers, brawling about law suits and politics — the people snappish, and extortioners, lazy, and two hundred years behind... | |
 | 1891 - 866 pàgines
...equally deserted and ruinous with ours; fields covered with stones; stone fences; scrubby oaks and pines; wretched orchards; scarcely one grain field in twenty...about lawsuits and politics; the people snappish, and extortionous, lazy, and two hundred years behind the Pennsylvanians in agricultural improvements."... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 pàgines
...thorough of American travellers, said in 1808 : " My journey through almost the whole of New England has rather lowered the Yankees in my esteem. Except a...covered with stones ; stone fences ; scrubby oaks and pine-trees ; wretched orchards ; scarcely one grain-field in twenty miles ; the taverns along the road... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 474 pàgines
...thorough of American travellers, said in 1808 : " My journey through almost the whole of New England has rather lowered the Yankees in my esteem. Except a...covered with stones ; stone fences ; scrubby oaks and pine-trees ; wretched orchards ; scarcely one grain-field in twenty miles ; the taverns along the road... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1889 - 466 pàgines
...lowered the Yankees in my esteem. Except a few neat academics, I found their scjiQolhouses-equally ruinous and deserted with ours : fields covered with stones ; stone fences ; scrubby oaks and pine-trees ; wretched orchards ; scarcely one grain-field in twenty miles ; the taverns along the road... | |
 | Marvin Olasky - 2000 - 324 pàgines
...birds but also people, noted that New England displayed "wretched orchards; scarcely one grain-field in twenty miles; the taverns along the road dirty, and filled with loungers bawling about lawsuits and politics." Wilson, an equal-opportunity critic, described North Carolina... | |
 | Henry Adams - 2006 - 244 pàgines
...thorough of American travellers, said in 1808: "My journey through almost the whole of New England has rather lowered the Yankees in my esteem. Except a...covered with stones; stone fences; scrubby oaks and pine-trees; wretched orchards; scarcely one grain-field in twenty miles; the taverns along the road... | |
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My journey through almost the whole of New England has rather lowered the Yankees in my esteem. Except a few neat academies, I found their schoolhouses equally ruinous and deserted with ours; fields covered with stones; stone fences; scrubby oaks and... 