 In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue...  The Works of Sydney Smith - Strana 96podľa Sydney Smith - 1844 - Počet stránok 333Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1882 - Počet stránok 899
...snow half depend. o. SHELLEY— Sonnet. To the Nile. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads nn American book? or goes to an American play ? . or looks at an American picture or statue ? p. SYDNEY SMITH lie view on tieyberl's Annals of the United ¿Hates. Rule Britannia, Britannia rules... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883
...for the privilege of putting him to death. Review uf Seyberft Annait of the Unittd Slatts. 1820. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...play ? or looks at an American picture or statue? Hid. Magnificent spectacle of human happiness. America. Edinburgh Hei-icir, July, 1824. (Great storm... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - Počet stránok 346
...the style : (1) The lilies say: Behold how we Preach, without words, of purity. — Hoxsetti. (2) In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? — Sidney Smith. (3) The circumstance which gives authors an advantage above all these great masters,... | |
 | William Tod Helmuth - 1885 - Počet stránok 43
...the following quotation appeared in one of the best English medical periodicals: "Onthefourquarters of the globe who reads an American book, or goes to...an American play, or looks at an American picture ? what does the world yet owe to American physicians and surgeons?" And although there are many distinguished... | |
 | Thomas Hunter - 1884 - Počet stránok 672
...of all books. 2. Heading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. 3. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? 4. Common sense is called common, by common consent, but it is the scarcest commodity in market.... | |
 | 1920
...into that extravagance of insularity. Sidney Smith gave an illustration of it when he wrote hi 1820, "Who reads an American book? or goes to an American...play ? or looks at an American picture or statue?" Well, at that very time, a noted English poet, Thomas Campbell, had read the poems of Philip Freneau... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1922
...interesting to remember that it was just a century ago that Sydney Smith uttered his famous query: "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book or goes to an American play?" in blissful ignorance of the crowds that had thronged Drury Lane a year before to witness John Howard... | |
 | American Street Railway Association - 1889
...the last thirty years, and blessed or delighted mankind by their works, inventions or examples ? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered ? What... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1889 - Počet stránok 355
...statesman-like studies of Politics or Political Economy. — [E. /?. i82o.} WHAT HAS AMERICA DONE? — In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? or... | |
 | American Street Railway Association. Meeting - 1889
...the last thirty years, and blessed or delighted mankind by their works, inventions or examples ? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered ? What... | |
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