 | American periodicals - 1926 - 600 pages
...of everything belonging to them. They think that there are no other men than themselves and no other world but England, and whenever they see a handsome...that 'he looks like an Englishman,' and that 'it is a pity that he should not be an Englishman.' Antonio Agipida, a Spaniard, writing at about this time,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - England - 1856 - 200 pages
...everything belonging to them. They think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England ; and, whenever they see a handsome...foreigner, they say that he looks like an Englishman, and it is a great pity he should not be an Englishman ; and whenever they partake of any delicacy with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - History - 1856 - 324 pages
...that he looks like an Englishman, and it is a great pity he should not be an Englishman ; and whenever they partake of any delicacy with a foreigner, they ask him whether such a thing is made in his country." When he adds epithets of praise, his climax is " so English; " and when he wishes to... | |
 | English literature - 1857 - 594 pages
...say that he looks like an Englishman, and it is a great pity he should not be an Englishman; whenever they partake of any delicacy with a foreigner, they ask him whether such a thing is made in his country.' 'And,' Emerson continues (with more truth than most of his paradoxical and reckless paragraphs... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1857 - 560 pages
...4-eason." J The Venetian says, "They think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and whenever they see a handsome...foreigner, they say that he looks like an Englishman." The "lords of human kind " have now, for the most part, absorbed the pride of country into a narrower... | |
 | William Brenchley Rye, Friedrich I (duke of Würtemberg) - England - 1865 - 462 pages
...everything belonging to them ; they think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome...foreigner, they ask him ' whether such a thing is made in tbeir country ?' They take great pleasure in having a quantity of excellent victuals, and also in remaining... | |
 | William Brenchley Rye - Great Britain - 1865 - 464 pages
...everything belonging to them ; they think that there are no other men like themselves, and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome...a great pity that he should not be an Englishman* (egran peccato che egK non sia Inglese) ; and when they partake of any delicacy with a foreigner, they... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...say he looks like an Englishman, and it is a great pity he should not be an Englishman: and whenever they partake of any delicacy with a foreigner, they ask him whether such a thing is made in his country." When he adds epithets of praise, his climax is " so English ;" and when he wishes to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...everything belonging to them. They think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and, whenever they see a handsome...foreigner, they say that he looks like an Englishman, and it is a great pity he should not be an Englishman ; and whenever they partake of any delicacy with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...everything belonging to them. They think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England ; and, whenever they see a handsome...foreigner, they say that he looks like an Englishman, and it is a great pity he should not be an Englishman ; and whenever they partake of any delicacy with... | |
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The English are great lovers of themselves, and of everything belonging to them. They think that there are no other men than themselves, and no other world but England; and, whenever they see a handsome foreigner, they say that he looks like an Englishman... 
