 Americans are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigour, and industry which began long since in the east; they will finish the great circle.  Letters from an American Farmer - Page 55by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur - 1904 - 355 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Towill Rutt - Chemists - 1832 - 584 pages
...changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them ti... greats mass of arts, sciences, vigour, and industry, which...since in the east. They will finish the great circle." See " Letters from an American Fanner," p. 52. See, also, Lord Corke,in 1/55, cupni, p 246, note, as... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - United States - 1872 - 676 pages
...are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigor, and industry which began long since in the East. They will finish the great circle."1 The colonies, moulded and directed by a race of freemen, continued to be treated by the mother... | |
 | Edward Howland - North America - 1877 - 858 pages
...are the Western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigor, and industry which began long since in the East They will finish the great circle." 1767. — THE first camp-meeting is said to have been held this year in Virginia. Two Baptist ministers,... | |
 | Charles Francis Himes - Universities and colleges - 1879 - 196 pages
...are the Western pilgrims who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences. vigor, and industry which began long since in the East. They will finish the great circle." Whilst it seems natural that Adams, coming from suffering New England, with his conclusions as clearly... | |
 | Education - 1920 - 706 pages
...are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigor, and industry which began long since in the east; they will finish the great circle. The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles; he must therefore entertain new ideas, and form... | |
 | Katharine Lee Bates - American literature - 1897 - 438 pages
...are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigor, and industry, which began long since in the East ; they will finish the great circle." A review of the hundred years brings courage for the journey but begun. CHAPTER IV NATIONAL ERA: POETRY... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - National characteristics, American - 1910 - 304 pages
...married a Frenchwoman, and whose present four sons have now wives of four different nations. . . . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a...since in the East. They will finish the great circle." This is the language of compliment, of course. It is the saying of a very polite prophet; and even... | |
 | Mary Augusta Laselle - Vocational guidance - 1913 - 468 pages
...are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigor, and industry which began long since in the east; they will finish the great circle!" It is this that we read in J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur's "Letters from an American Farmer," published... | |
 | John Lincoln Brandt - Anglo-Saxon race - 1915 - 264 pages
...are the Western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigor and industry which began long since in the East. They will finish the great circle." Vandyke, "The Spirit of America." The writer's father was of German extraction, whose ancestors came... | |
 | Franklin Thomas Baker, Ashley Horace Thorndike - Readers - 1918 - 432 pages
...are the western pilgrims, who are carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigor, and industry which began long since in the East ;...were once scattered all over Europe; here they are in28 corporated into one of the finest systems of population which has ever appeared, and which will... | |
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