 I regard the American people as a great embryo poet, now moody, now wild, but bringing out results of absolute good sense: restless and wayward in action, but with deep peace at his heart; exulting that he has caught the true aspect of things past, and...  Society in America - Page 29by Harriet Martineau - 1837 - 295 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1915 - 494 pages
...rugged, bustling, uncouth, and unsophisticated America of seventy-five or eighty years ago, who said, "There is the strongest hope of a nation, that is capable of being possessed of an idea." As we look back to the days of the Civil War we find that the nation was stirred with... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - 1920 - 392 pages
...action, but with deep peace at his heart; exulting that he has caught the true aspect of things past and the depth of futurity which lies before him, wherein...that is capable of being possessed with an idea. And recall her appeal to the American people to " cherish their high democratic hope, their faith in man.... | |
 | Frederick Jackson Turner - 1920 - 396 pages
...action, but with deep peace at his heart; exulting that he has caught the true aspect of things past, and the depth of futurity which lies before him, wherein...begun to dream of. There is the strongest hope of a natiwn that is capable of being possessed with an idea." It is important to bear this idealism of the... | |
 | 1896 - 894 pages
...but with deep peace at his heart ; exulting that he has caught the true aspect of things past, and the depth of futurity which lies before him, wherein...that is capable of being possessed with an idea." It is important to bear this idealism of the West in mind. The very materialism that has been urged... | |
 | University of Chicago - 1915 - 240 pages
...rugged, bustling, uncouth, and unsophisticated America of seventy-five or eighty years ago, who said, "There is the strongest hope of a nation, that is capable of being possessed of an idea." As we look back to the days of the Civil War we find that the nation was stirred with... | |
 | 1914 - 680 pages
...Miss Martineau pictures the American "exulting that he has caught the true aspect of things past and the depth of futurity which lies before him, wherein...that is capable of being possessed with an idea," she adds, and she adjures the American people to "give perpetual and earnest heed to one point, to... | |
 | 1914 - 92 pages
...Miss Martineau pictures the American "exulting that he has caught the true aspect of things past and the depth of futurity which lies before him, wherein...that is capable of being possessed with an idea," she adds, and she adjures the American people to "give perpetual and earnest 'heed to one point, to... | |
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