 but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger-houses. . . . From the banks of the Mississippi to the banks of the James, I did not—that I remember —see, except perhaps in one or two towns, a thermometer; nor a book of Shakespeare ; nor a...  National Review - Page 2581861Full view - About this book
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1861 - 546 pages
...care, no honesty. At the there was no stable, but a log-pen ; and besides this no other outhouses, hut a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger-houses....pianoforte, or a sheet of music; nor the light of a Cnrcel, or other good center-table or reading lamp ; nor an engraving, or a copy, of any kind, of a... | |
 | Worcester Historical Society, Worcester, Mass - 1904 - 376 pages
...belief—even the most progressive barely able to read. In speaking of a three months' horse-back ride “from the banks of the Mississippi to the banks of the James,” ¿ Olmsted says, “I did not see - - . except perhaps in one or two towns, a thermometer, nor a book... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 538 pages
...considerable proportion cotton-planters. He observed that certain symbols of civilization were wanting. " From the banks of the Mississippi to the banks of the James," he writes, " I did not (that I remember) see, except perhaps in one or two towns, a thermometer, nor... | |
 | Franklin Henry Giddings - 1906 - 588 pages
...care, no honesty at the — there was no stable, but a log-pen; and besides this, no other out-house but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger-houses....of the Mississippi to the banks of the James, I did not (that I remember) see, except perhaps in one or two towns, a thermometer, nor a book of Shakespeare,... | |
 | Franklin Henry Giddings - 1906 - 598 pages
...care, no honesty at the — there was no stable, but a log-pen; and besides this, no other out-house but a smoke-house, a corn-house, and a range of nigger-houses....of the Mississippi to the banks of the James, I did not (that I remember) see, except perhaps in one or two towns, a thermometer, nor a book of Shakespeare,... | |
 | Frederick Law Olmsted - 1907 - 300 pages
...the road as being better than ordinary—houses where they " sot up for travellers and had things." From the banks of the Mississippi to the banks of the James, I did not (that I remember) see, except perhaps in one or two towns, a thermometer, or a book of Shakespeare,... | |
 | Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve - 1998 - 456 pages
...his pistol and thinks he has scared off the guard, but the archers grab him and taunt him in song. ,.“From the banks of the Mississippi to the banks of the James, I did not (that I remember) see, except perhaps in one or two towns, a thermometer, nor a book of Shakespeare,... | |
 | Elizabeth Stevenson - 532 pages
...Olmsted as a matter of course as a witness to the dearth of general culture in that place and time: “From the banks of the Mississippi to the banks of the James, I did not (that I remember) see, except perhaps in one or two towns, a thermometer, nor a book of Shakespeare,... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 pages
...than their grandfathers had. Frederick Law Olmstead, who had traveled extensively in the South, wrote: "From the banks of the Mississippi to the banks of the James, I did not (that I remember) see, except perhaps in one or two towns, a thermometer, nor a book of Shakespeare,... | |
 | Donald J. Meyers - 2005 - 284 pages
...than their grandfathers had. Frederick Law Olmstead, who had traveled extensively in the South, wrote: "From the banks of the Mississippi to the banks of the James, I did not (that I remember) see, except perhaps in one or two towns, a thermometer, nor a book of Shakespeare,... | |
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