 I don't like Americans," Scott said ; " I never did and never shall like them. I have seldom met an American gentleman in the large and complete sense of the term. I have no wish to eat with them, drink with them, deal with or consort with them in any...  The Olio, Or, Museum of Entertainment - Էջ 271833Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1832 - 598 էջ
...sprung and wounded spars, and ? lugged and nailed lead over the shot-holes, and all within half an hour, don't like Americans ; I never did, and never shall...them in any way ; but let me tell the whole truth, norftght with them, were it not for the laurels to be acquired, by overcoming an enemy so brave, determined... | |
 | 1832 - 1014 էջ
...might appear to have been given, the execution of it was quick as lightning. The crew, now reduced K to ten working hands, had, with an almost miraculous...way so worthy of one's steel, as they have always proTed. One used to fight with a Frenchman, as a matter of course, and for the fun of the thing as... | |
 | William Clark Russell - 1885 - 332 էջ
...swallow at sea was the Yankee with whom stout Tom Cringle declared he would never wish to fight, " were it not for the laurels to be acquired by overcoming...worthy of one's steel as they have always proved." They knew aboard the Shannon, as well as Tom Cringle knew and owned, that " a feather would turn the... | |
 | Michael Scott - 1876 - 492 էջ
...like them. I have seldom met with an American gentleman, in the large and complete sense of the term. I have no wish to eat with them, drink with them,...enemy so brave, determined, and alert, and every way 30 worthy of one's steel, as they have always proved. One used to fight with a Frenchman, as a matter... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1890 - 450 էջ
...shall like them. I have seldom met an American gentleman in the large and complete sense of the term. I have no wish to eat with them, drink with them,...worthy of one's steel as they have always proved." The Americans did not fight the War of 1812 in order to make themselves loved. According to Scott's... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1891 - 456 էջ
...shall like them. I have seldom met an American gentleman in the large and complete sense of the term. I have no wish to eat with them, drink with them,...worthy of one's steel as they have always proved." The Americans did not fight the War of 1812 in order to make themselves loved. According to Scott's... | |
 | Albert Gleaves - 1904 - 424 էջ
...never shall like them. I seldom meet an American gentleman in the large and complete sense of the term. I have no wish to eat with them, drink with them,...worthy of one's steel as they have always proved. ... In the field, or grappling in mortal combat on the blood-slippery quarter-deck of an enemy's vessel,... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1906 - 470 էջ
...and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you?" 53 54 As Others See Us 03 sense of the term. I have no wish to eat with them, drink with them, deal with them, or consort with them in any way." Many and interesting things appear to have happened between... | |
 | 1906 - 950 էջ
...the mourners at his head and feet, Say, scurrile jester, is there room for you?" sense of the term. I have no wish to eat with them, drink with them, deal with them, or consort with them in any way." Many and interesting things appear to have happened between... | |
 | john graham brooks - 1908 - 446 էջ
...shall like them. I have seldom met an American gentleman in the large and complete sense of the term. I have no wish to eat with them, drink with them, deal with them, or consort with them in any way." Many and interesting things appear to have happened between... | |
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