their young daughters, waxing pale, as they sit for long sultry hours, immured with hundreds of fellow-victims, listening to the roaring vanities of a preacher canonized by a college of old women…
This is a very interesting work; it is one among a thousand which prove the people of America to be the most enterprising in the world.
Other nations have been called thin-skinned, but the citizens of the Union have, apparently, no skins at all ; they wince if a breeze blows over them, unless it be tempered with adulation.
In circumstances where an English woman would look proud, and a French woman nonchalante, an American lady looks grim …
the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learned but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having which they do not possess.
I have not as yet found even the servants, a race of beings peculiarly quarrelled with by our grumbletonians, either morose or impertinent.
and was disposed, from the experiments of the morning, to pronounce the city quite as civil as any city in England, and perhaps a little more honest …
an American husbandman or mechanic connects himself with his chief magistrates and legislators, and seems in his discourse to take part in all their measures, and decide on their wisdom or error
I should say that it were impossible for a people to be more completely identified with their government, than are the Americans.
Hitherto the education of women has been but slightly attended to…