Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 69
1820
Full view - About this book

The Literary and Scientific Repository, and Critical Review, Volume 1

1820 - 558 pages
...the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or examples ? In so far as we know, there is no such parallel to be produced from the whole annals of this self-adulatiog race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an...
Full view - About this book

The London Medical, Surgical, and Pharmaceutical Repository, Volume 19

1823 - 1126 pages
...(published quarterly, each Number containing upwards of 220 pages), taken from the Edinburgh Review: — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...looks at an American picture or statue? What does the-world yet owe to American Physicians and Surgeons ?" If Dr. Chapman wishes to demonstrate the injustice...
Full view - About this book

The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 29

Methodist Church - 1847 - 662 pages
...names of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, and Milton. Yes ; although Sidney Smith's taunting question, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" may now be more satisfactorily answered than when it was first propounded ; although we can produce...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 348 pages
...years, and blest or delighted mankind "•'У У« , „ by their worts, inveutions, or examples? In so far as we know, there is no such parallel to be produced Horn the whole annals of this «elf-adulating race. la IRELAND. (EDINBURGH REVIEW, 1820.) 1. Wliitdaw's...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith, Volume 1

Sydney Smith - English literature - 1845 - 530 pages
...the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or examples? In so far as we know, there is no such parallel to be produced...American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? AY hat does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? AVhat new substances have their...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith - 1846 - 368 pages
...thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or examples ? In so far us we know, there is no such parallel to be produced...race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an AmencMl book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at :m American picture or statue ? What does...
Full view - About this book

Bibliotheca Americana Nova: A Catalogue of Books in Various Languages ...

Obadiah Rich - America - 1846 - 530 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith - Essays - 1850 - 736 pages
...the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or examples ? In so far as 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 book ? or goes to an...
Full view - About this book

Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York, Volume 8

American Institute of the City of New York - Agriculture - 1850 - 572 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, Volume 6

Theology - 1857 - 992 pages
...the arts, for literatore, or even for the statesmen-like studies of politics, or political economy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" At a later period, he says : " There appears not at this moment in America one man of any considerable...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF