He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad... The Spirit of America - Page 152by Henry Van Dyke - 1910 - 276 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1904 - 1220 pages
...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will some day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
| Richard Frothingham - History - 1872 - 678 pages
...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
| Edward Howland - Canada - 1877 - 848 pages
...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the Western pilgrims,... | |
| Charles Francis Himes - Universities and colleges - 1879 - 196 pages
...reproduced Briton. "Here," he wrote, as quoted from the first number of "The Progress," lately published, "individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the Western pilgrims... | |
| Education - 1920 - 706 pages
...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 566 pages
...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
| American fiction - 1906 - 560 pages
...Richard is echoed no less sonorously a few years later by the Frenchman Crevecceur: "Here individu-* als of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world." If a nation so mingled and moulded... | |
| Katharine Lee Bates - American literature - 1897 - 456 pages
...century ago one of our Huguenot immigrants, Crevecoeur, wrote hopefully of his adopted country : " Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labors and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
| Barrett Wendell - American literature - 1900 - 598 pages
...rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. " Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose 'abours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
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