...pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. Review uf Seyberft Annait of the Unittd Slatts. 1820. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play ? or looks at an American picture or statue? Hid. Magnificent spectacle of human happiness. America. Edinburgh Hei-icir, July, 1824. (Great storm...

...and the style : (1) The lilies say: Behold how we Preach, without words, of purity. — Hoxsetti. (2) In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? — Sidney Smith. (3) The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters,...

...the following quotation appeared in one of the best English medical periodicals: "Onthefourquarters of the globe who reads an American book, or goes to...an American play, or looks at an American picture ? what does the world yet owe to American physicians and surgeons?" And although there are many distinguished...

...flowers of all books. 2. Heading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. 3. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? 4. Common sense is called common, by common consent, but it is the scarcest commodity in market....

...into that extravagance of insularity. Sidney Smith gave an illustration of it when he wrote hi 1820, "Who reads an American book? or goes to an American...play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?" Well, at that very time, a noted English poet, Thomas Campbell, had read the poems of Philip Freneau...

...interesting to remember that it was just a century ago that Sydney Smith uttered his famous query: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book or goes to an American play?" in blissful ignorance of the crowds that had thronged Drury Lane a year before to witness John Howard...

...honest we shall have to admit that when Sydney Smith propounded the best remembered of his queries, "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " our forefathers would have been hard put to find a fair and favorable answer, because the books...

...JOHN PENDLETON KENNEDY . 384 WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT 400 LITERATURE OF THE REPUBLIC PART n 1821-1834 In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book ? SYDNEY SMITH. AD 1820. The public expectation, which had been raised so high by the character of...

...the Christian Observer, London, in July, 1818, two years before Sidney Smith flippantly inquired, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" The Observer, after a long extract from the closing sermon, which was one delivered at the opening...

...of the last thirty years, and blessed or delighted mankind by their works, inventions or examples ? 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 substances have their chemists discovered ? What...