At Home and Abroad: Or, Things and Thoughts in America and EuropeAssociated Faculty Press, Incorporated, 1971 - 466 էջ Excerpt from At Home and Abroad: Or Things and Thoughts in America and Europe The second part of the present volume gives my sis ter's impressions and observations during her European journey and residence in Italy. This is done through let ters, which originally appeared in the New York Tribune. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. |
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... means of a healthy influence . But his aims were altogether generous . Freedom , the liberty of law , not license ; not indolence , work for himself and children and all men , but under genial and poetic influences ; these were his aims ...
... means inferred the falsehood of the information , that here was to be found a circle rich in intellect and in aspiration . The manufacturing and com- mercial towns , burning focuses of grief and vice , are also the cen- tres of ...
... means of judging to the American merchant ( full of kindness and honorable sympathy as beneath the crust he so often is ) who wants pictures and statues , not merely from ostenta- tion , but as means of delight and improvement to ...