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" He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. "
Letters from an American Farmer - Page 54
by J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur - 1904 - 355 pages
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New Outlook, Volume 77

1904 - 1220 pages
...volume is his chapter on " What is an American ?'' in which he presents a high model for the emigrant : He is an American who, leaving behind him all his...ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the Government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad...
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A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present ...

Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, Mrs. Ellen Mackay Hutchinson Cortissoz - American literature - 1894 - 592 pages
...country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Duteh, whose son married a French woman, and whose present...new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he'obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...780 : — " What then is the American, this new man ? He is either a European or a descendant of a European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which...life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma...
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Colonial union, 1698-1774

William Estabrook Chancellor, Fletcher Willis Hewes - United States - 1905 - 594 pages
...Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons now have wives of different nations. He is an American, who...life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma...
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The French Blood in America

Lucian John Fosdick - French - 1906 - 618 pages
...This is the great chain which links us all, this is the picture which every province exhibits. . . . "He is an American, who leaving behind him all his...new government he obeys and the new rank he holds, j He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals...
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A Literary History of America

Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1907 - 602 pages
...married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. //', • is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient...life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma...
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Things Worth While

Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Conduct of life - 1908 - 88 pages
...his " Letters of an American Farmer," more than a hundred years ago. " I could point out to you a man whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was...new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. . . . The American is a new man, who acts upon new principles ; he must, therefore, entertain new ideas...
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Outlines of English and American Literature

William Joseph Long - Literary Criticism - 1917 - 588 pages
...FICTION 365 " What then is the American, this new man ? He is either a European or a descendant of a European ; hence that strange mixture of blood, which...life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma...
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Story Hour Readings, Book 7

Ernest Clark Hartwell - Readers - 1921 - 422 pages
...French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. An American is he who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices...mode of life he has embraced, the new government he 10 obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our...
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The Frontier in American Literature

Lucy Lockwood Hazard - American literature - 1927 - 344 pages
...an American is couched in terms which combine the activities of regional and spiritual pioneering: He is an American who leaving behind him all his ancient...new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. — Here the rewards of his industry follow with equal steps the progress of his labor; his labor is...
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