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  "King Jemmy,"[19] "James the Great,"[20] and "Mundungus,"[21] and was referred to as "James the First Emperor of the Virginians and King of the United States


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id: 29952
title: The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures
author: Perry, Bliss
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  American life; the zest of the explorer, the humor of the pioneer; the Scholars like Mr. Henry Adams or Mr. James Ford Rhodes will explain to us American life embedded in the American character is one phase of the national mind. Our endeavor to state the general characteristics of the American mind counterplay of these new forces that the American literature of the American history, however, has been marked by certain great romantic are intimations of what American men and women would have liked to do individual is all the more true of the national sense of humor. afford a new national field for certain types of humor and satire. American humor which ridicules the inhabitants of certain states. that the pioneers of American national humor, the creators of what we the history of American provincial and political satire, like Seba American art and literature must keep pace with this socialization of


id: 17648
title: The Land of Contrasts: A Briton''s View of His American Kin
author: Muirhead, James F. (James Fullarton)
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  that Americans lead us in countless little points of household comfort of England are at least as good as the best Americans, but the general Compared to the appearance of the American girl in books written about American man so far has mainly been to subdue a new continent to human of New York and other American cities is often conspicuously superior seldom in evidence in the United States--she whom the American people in New York are not characteristic of American civilisation. There is one English critic of American life whose opinion cannot be the other hand I am bound to state that I have known American men of American in New York; but this is not the first impression, and first Unlike those of many other American cities, the best houses of New As I have said, there is no lack of good Americanism in New York. The large American way of looking at


id: 27250
title: What I Saw in America
author: Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
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  American Constitution is a thing like the Spanish Inquisition. thing unless you think it out.'' It is not to deny that American Ireland Irish; the great mass of men taking certain national traditions In other words, the democratic ideal of countries like America, know a little about journalism, American and English, would have That sort of thing is the bad side of American literature; but I think few Americans realise how much English children situation like that of modern America, and especially the Middle West. American citizens do at least so far love freedom as to like to have difference in the conversation of American and English business men arises, I think, from certain much deeper things in the American which of New York, which is by no means the same thing as America, is that of so national as humour; and many things, like many people, can be


id: 1864
title: Hero Tales from American History
author: Lodge, Henry Cabot
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  to be a great nation whenever her young men cease to possess energy, States, all men turned to Washington to stand at the head of the new country through a great civil war, was then able to build up a new and a great force of Indians from the lakes, Boone commanded the left wing. hundred fighting men-British regulars, French partizans, and Indians. army of over seven thousand men, and accompanied by a large force of a neutral port, when four British war-vessels, a ship of the line, a men of iron courage and great bodily powers, skilled in the use of their Hyde gave the orders to left face and forward and the Maine men marched regiment just in time to see a long line of men in gray rise from behind great ironclad rams as the men of the Union did in building the monitors


id: 39950
title: People of Destiny: Americans as I saw them at Home and Abroad
author: Gibbs, Philip
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  the Great White Way, do not reveal the real soul of New York. heart of New York business life and saw its types in their natural of action the American people take in the new world that is now being of the United States; and I visited the War College and met American life of the American people more essentially than we know it in England, The United States of America has a new meaning in the world, and has The American people as a whole did truly enter into war in the spirit of people in the United States at the time between armistice and peace. the United States American people did not forget, even in their people of the United States are least likely to behave in that way, The people of the United States know what their men did in know and like the American people.


id: 41898
title: Introducing the American Spirit
author: Steiner, Edward Alfred
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  _The Herr Director Meets the American Spirit_ The Herr Director and the Frau Directorin greeted all the good Lord''s The Herr Director and the Frau Directorin, like all Europeans who can The Herr Director and the Frau Directorin wished to go to church on At Lake Mohonk the Herr Director met business men employing thousands of "Take us out of New York," the Herr Director said after a wearing day of On the whole, the Herr Director liked the looks of the boys he saw, and reveals the American Spirit at its best, that the Herr Director embodied The Herr Director and the Frau Directorin caught the spirit of When the Herr Director had said good-bye to the hundred or more people "As restless as the American people," quoth the Herr Director. Since landing in New York the Herr Director and the Frau Directorin had


id: 41862
title: The Spirit of America
author: Van Dyke, Henry
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  in the life and character of the American people. The soul of a people has made the American nation. quite different language: "We, the people of the United States, ... reflection, this new life began to be self-conscious and to feel its way public schools, where the children of these people of the Old World are ways in which this soul of the American people has expressed itself in good ideal for granted: _The New American Type_. American people, _the spirit of self-reliance_. American political life, and that it is probably a good thing to have nation, State, and town, each typical American is a person who likes to development of will-power in the American people: and that is its coming into the attitude of the American people toward great wealth, "What then is the American," he asks, "this new man? In this, and in all other things of like nature, we Americans look into


id: 45717
title: Uncle Sam
author: Matthews, Albert
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  In Yankee, Brother Jonathan, and Uncle Sam, we Americans have perhaps The story connecting Uncle Sam with Samuel Wilson first Uncle Sam is first found in September, 1813, or when the war was half Paulding did not employ the term Uncle Sam.[76] But in a work published appeared in several Albany, Troy, and New York newspapers in 1812 and one of them connected Samuel Wilson with Uncle Sam. It is true that the Uncle Sam story is found in two Troy papers, but in each case it while the earliest known example of Uncle Sam is from a Troy paper, but Does the history of the term Uncle Sam, now given for the first time, perhaps with _Uncle Sam_, a popular name for the United States" Merriam--The Original ''Uncle Sam'' House." It is in part as follows: of the term ''Uncle Sam,'' as applied to the United States.


id: 56484
title: The Future in America: A Search After Realities
author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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  of thing, I believed, was going on for a time, interesting personally mind of the idea that in writing of the Future in America I''m going to States are a people of great individual force of will, the clear strong When one talks to an American of his national purpose he seems a little as that "America is a great country, sir," that its future is gigantic American thing; it is the same process anywhere--only in America there rate in the State of New York at that time for a year--as I could earn little naked boys, free Americans, work for Mr. Borden, the New York Great Britain as in America, but Americans talk more and louder than bringing into being a new state--a feat no people in the world has yet meets all sorts of Boston people, one visits the State-House; it''s all these fine people more alive to present and future things, a little


