America and EuropeD. Appleton, 1857 - 411 páginas |
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... Americans , and not to this assumed origin are to be traced the facul- ties and qualifications which mark the American political and social institutions . Neither history and physiology , nor psychology and logic justify the favorite ...
... Americans , and not to this assumed origin are to be traced the facul- ties and qualifications which mark the American political and social institutions . Neither history and physiology , nor psychology and logic justify the favorite ...
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... American . have nothing in common with the round , slightly turned - up , and juicy - faced Englishman . The long - necked American has not his type in England . Similar divergencies extend to the hair , and to the whole frame . The ...
... American . have nothing in common with the round , slightly turned - up , and juicy - faced Englishman . The long - necked American has not his type in England . Similar divergencies extend to the hair , and to the whole frame . The ...
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... American world was not called to life , and is not circumscribed by the narrow , blind , fatalistic physical laws of race . Amidst ups and downs , in smooth and in thorny paths , at times overshadowed and then brilliantly luminous , the ...
... American world was not called to life , and is not circumscribed by the narrow , blind , fatalistic physical laws of race . Amidst ups and downs , in smooth and in thorny paths , at times overshadowed and then brilliantly luminous , the ...
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... American people absolutely ought to have certain characteristic traits of its own to fulfil the task before it , to elaborate this task by a new and special process , and to perfect its own destinies and those of the part of the ...
... American people absolutely ought to have certain characteristic traits of its own to fulfil the task before it , to elaborate this task by a new and special process , and to perfect its own destinies and those of the part of the ...
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... American character that unbending quality which disables the indi- vidual from becoming a permanent denizen of other pow- ers , of other States . There may be a few rare exceptions . It is almost impossible to imagine an American ...
... American character that unbending quality which disables the indi- vidual from becoming a permanent denizen of other pow- ers , of other States . There may be a few rare exceptions . It is almost impossible to imagine an American ...
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