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" 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? "
A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the ... - Page 330
by John Bach McMaster - 1900
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The London Medical, Surgical, and Pharmaceutical Repository, Volume 19

1823 - 1126 pages
...(published quarterly, each Number containing upwards of 220 pages), taken from the Edinburgh Review: — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...looks at an American picture or statue? What does the-world yet owe to American Physicians and Surgeons ?" If Dr. Chapman wishes to demonstrate the injustice...
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The Methodist Quarterly Review, Volume 29

1847 - 662 pages
...names of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakspeare, and Milton. Yes ; although Sidney Smith's taunting question, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" may now be more satisfactorily answered than when it was first propounded ; although we can produce...
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The Works of Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith - 1844 - 348 pages
...throw into the hands of government, will invest it with so vast an miïuence, and hold out such means the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world and temptations to corruption, as all the virtue and yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ! What...
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The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith, Volume 1

Sydney Smith - 1845 - 530 pages
...themselves over the world from our little island in the course of the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or...American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue ? AY hat does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons ? AVhat new substances have their...
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Bibliotheca Americana Nova: A Catalogue of Books in Various Languages ...

Obadiah Rich - 1846 - 530 pages
...is in a review of this work in the Edinburgh Review (xzxiii. p. 79), that the question is asked, " In the four quarters of the globe who reads an American book?" &c. 36' A FULL AND CORRECT AccoUNTof the Military Occurrences of the late War between Great Britain...
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Annual Report of the American Institute of the City of New York, Volume 8

American Institute of the City of New York - 1850 - 572 pages
...overthrow of our manufactures. After which we find the Edinburgh Review thus discoursing about us : — " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book 1 or goes to an American play 1 or looks at an American picture or statue ? What does the world yet...
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The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, Volume 6

1857 - 992 pages
...the arts, for literatore, or even for the statesmen-like studies of politics, or political economy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" At a later period, he says : " There appears not at this moment in America one man of any considerable...
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The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, Volume 28

Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1856 - 784 pages
...the arts, for literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of politics, or political economy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ?" At a later period, he says: "There appears not at this moment in America one man of any considerable...
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Young America in Wall-Street

George Francis Train - 1857 - 428 pages
...the last thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or examples ? In EO far as we know, there is no such parallel to be produced...What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surMarry at came to the United States in the midst of the panic 'of 1837, to sneer at everything he...
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The American Journal of Education, Volume 3

Henry Barnard - 1857 - 866 pages
...Crubbes — their Siddonses, Kemballs, Keans, or O'Neils — their Wilkiea, Lawrences, or Chantreys? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book 1 or goes to an American play J or looks at an American statue or picture 1 What does the world yet...
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