...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...their chemists discovered ? or what old ones have they analyzed ? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans ? What nave...

...¡in American book? or goes toan American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What docs the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances h;ive their chemists discovered? or what old ones have they analyzed? What new constellations bave...

...the arts, for literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of politics or political economy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes...

...review of "Soybert's Statistical Annals of the United States," " Who in the four quarters of the globe reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ?" it was undoubtedly true that quotations from an American source were comparatively unknown to Englishmen...

...evident in all departments. In the ' ' Edinburgh Review " of 1 820, Sydney Smith asked the question : "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? ' ' America smarted under the question which she could not answer, for at that day there was no book...

...An' risen up Earth's Greatest Nation. /. LOWELL — The Biglow Papers. Second Series. No. 7. St. 21. lowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal...HEBBEBT — Life. Life is short, art long, t). HIPP g. SYDNEY SMITH— Works. Vol.11. America. ( Edinburgh Review, 1820. ) America has furnished to the...

...forgive, divine." 21. "With all thy faults, I love thee still." 22. "What will Mrs. Grundy say? " 23. " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? " 24. " Let every man mind his own business." ie PEN-NAMES OF FAMOUS PENHOLDERS 1. Which of the poet-laureates...

...little more is called for. "GUIDE TO AMERICAN HISTORY." — Seventy years ago Sidney Smith wrote : "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at one American picture or statue ? " Now, the aspect has all changed, and in no department more than...

...in alluding to our alleged slow intellectual development, as a nation, sneeringly remarked : — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play ; or looks upon an American picture or statue ? Who drinks out of American glasses, or ea's from American plates,...

...review of Seybert's Annals of the United States, published in the Edinburgh Review in 1820, asked, " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American...American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? " inquisitive after her painters and statuaries. Was it that they expected too much from the mere...