...the Christian Observer, London, in July, 1818, two years before Sidney Smith flippantly inquired, " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book?" The Observer, after a long extract from the closing sermon, which was one delivered at the opening...

...of the last thirty years, and blessed or delighted mankind by their works, inventions or examples ? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered ? What...

...of the last thirty years, and blessed or delighted mankind by their works, inventions or examples ? In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances have their chemists discovered ? What...

...Freedom, Government, Great Britain, Liberty, Newspapers, Patriotism, Philistinism, Public Opinion. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...American play, or looks at an American picture or statue ? 122 Sydney Smith: Review on Seybert's Annals oj the United States. America has proved that it is...

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...is just sixty years since Sidney Smith, castigating our national habit of self-adulation, asked: " In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? . . . Under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his...

...taunts were none the less galling because they were true : Who, in the four quarters of the globe, reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American painting or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons ? What new substances...

...arts, for literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of politics or political economy." . . . "In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? " Twenty years, from the time when these words were written, sufficed to bring forward Emerson, Channing,...

...the labt thirty years, and blest or delighted mankind by their works, inventions, or examples? In so far as we know, there is no such parallel to be produced...race. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads ¡in American book? or goes toan American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What docs...

...the arts, for literature, or even for the statesman-like studies of politics or political economy. In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American...an American picture or statue ? What does the world owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes...