 ... fathers, back and back to the old beginnings, to Plymouth and Roanoke and Rip Van Winkle! It's all gone, all done, all over. You have to be a small, well-knit country for that sort of exquisite personal unitedness. There's nothing united about these...  Lady Baltimore - Էջ 65Owen Wister - 1906 - 406 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | Owen Wister - 1906 - 456 էջ
...and a fine one, too! We knew each other, we visited each other, we wrote letters, sent presents,kept up relations; we, in short, coherently joined hands...people living and dying for money. And these ladies of yours—well, they have made me homesick for a national and a social past which I never saw, but which... | |
 | 1907 - 912 էջ
...churchyard,"There is nothing united about these United States any more except Standard Oil and discontent. We 're no longer a small people living and dying for a great...past which I never saw, but which my old people knew. They 're like legends still living, still warm and with us. In their quiet clean-cut faces I seem to... | |
 | Helen L. Laird - 2006 - 527 էջ
...Lady Baltimore Melvin purchased, read, and marked up when it appeared in 1906, claimed that Americans were no longer "a small people living and dying for a great idea, [but] a big people living and dying for money" and that "nothing united the states anymore except Standard... | |
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