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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 130 0 Browse Search
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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 126 0 Browse Search
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Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., General Grant. (search)
ourse, no opinion to offer. So far as the general European reader might still be attracted to such a history,ssues at stake and of the personages engaged, we in Europe have, it cannot be denied, in approaching an Americ Texas was annexed, a territory larger than the Austrian Empire; and after taking military possession of Texas,shment of George Sand during the German war, to see Europe looking on with indifference to the danger of such he resembles the Duke of Wellington. The eyes of Europe, during the War of Secession, were chiefly fixed onh Anna and Cold Harbour, was watched at the time in Europe with keen attention, and is much better known than at I must call the American vein, better than any European soldiers. And the reason assigned for this boast y worked like a machine, but the machine thought. European armies know very little what they are fighting ford do not embrace Grant's Presidency, his journey to Europe, his financial disaster, his painful illness and de
Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., II: a word about America. (search)
spaper observes, with a good deal of point, that it is from these exceptional enthusiasts that the heroes of the tales of Mr. James and Mr. Howells seem to be recruited. It shrewdly describes them as people who spend more than half their life in Europe, and return only to scold their agents for the smallness of their remittances ; and protests that such people will have, and can have, no perceptible influence for good on the real civilization of America. Then our Boston friend turns to me agai me, at any rate, it is not credible. And I feel more sure than ever, that our Boston informant has told us of groups where he ought to have told us of individuals; and that many of his individuals, even, have hopped over, as he wittily says, to Europe. Mr. Lowell himself describes his own nation as the most common-schooled and the least cultivated people in the world. They strike foreigners in the same way. M. Renan says that the United States have created a considerable popular instructio
Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., III: a word more about America. (search)
causes — such a cause as the division between rich and poor, for instance — which may lead to revolution. But I mean that comparatively with the old countries of Europe they are free from the danger of revolution; and I believe that the good elements in them will make a way for them to escape out of what they really have of this degrading to him or makes him lose caste; and poverty itself appears to him as inconvenient and disagreeable rather than as humiliating. When the immigrant from Europe strikes root in his new home, he becomes as the American. It may be said that the Americans, when they attained their independence, had not the elements for a er may be said of the worship of the almighty dollar in America, it is indubitable that rich men are regarded there with less envy and hatred than rich men are in Europe. Why is this? Because their condition is less fixed, because government and legislation do not take them more seriously than other people, make grandees of them
Matthew Arnold, Civilization in the United States: First and Last Impressions of America., IV: civilization in the United States. (search)
ey are cheap, and they are better furnished and in winter are warmer than third-class carriages in England. Luxuries are, as I have said, very dear — above all, European luxuries; but a working-man's clothing is nearly as cheap as in England, and plain food is on the whole cheaper. Even luxuries of a certain kind are within a later, whom I found painting and prospering in America, how he liked the country. How can an artist like it? was his answer. The American artists live chiefly in Europe; all Americans of cultivation and wealth visit Europe more and more constantly. The mere nomenclature of the country acts upon a cultivated person like the incesEurope more and more constantly. The mere nomenclature of the country acts upon a cultivated person like the incessant pricking of pins. What people in whom the sense for beauty and fitness was quick could have invented, or could tolerate, the hideous names ending in ville, the Briggsvilles, Higginsvilles, Jacksonvilles, rife from Maine to Florida; the jumble of unnatural and inappropriate names everywhere? On the line from Albany to Buffal