Old-world Questions and New-world AnswersK. Paul, Trench & Company, 1885 - 369 pages |
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... French thrift , indolence from Irish shrewdness , want of enterprise from Scandinavian in- dustry , shiftlessness from negro docility , and indifference from Chinese skill and patience . The old world watches the transmuter closely , re ...
... French thrift , indolence from Irish shrewdness , want of enterprise from Scandinavian in- dustry , shiftlessness from negro docility , and indifference from Chinese skill and patience . The old world watches the transmuter closely , re ...
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... French and the Dutch . It goes without saying that the New England farmer is a totally different person from the highly characterized Englishman , with whom most of us have tramped the September stubbles , and some of us have dined ...
... French and the Dutch . It goes without saying that the New England farmer is a totally different person from the highly characterized Englishman , with whom most of us have tramped the September stubbles , and some of us have dined ...
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... French house , with mansard roofs , dormer windows and a profusion of surface ornament , which kept the floor until , finally , our own Queen Anne has won all hearts . The last change appears to have resulted from the pretty build- ings ...
... French house , with mansard roofs , dormer windows and a profusion of surface ornament , which kept the floor until , finally , our own Queen Anne has won all hearts . The last change appears to have resulted from the pretty build- ings ...
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... French Canadians , twenty - eight Irish , and thirty - four Italians , out of every hundred immi- grants of these nationalities respectively are illiterates . But the factory doors are open , a stream of black- coated men and spruce ...
... French Canadians , twenty - eight Irish , and thirty - four Italians , out of every hundred immi- grants of these nationalities respectively are illiterates . But the factory doors are open , a stream of black- coated men and spruce ...
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... French Communism , Russian Nihilism , Eng- lish Trades - unionism and American discontent mass themselves more and more definitely over against the existing order . No common standard floats , as yet , above the sullen forces of labour ...
... French Communism , Russian Nihilism , Eng- lish Trades - unionism and American discontent mass themselves more and more definitely over against the existing order . No common standard floats , as yet , above the sullen forces of labour ...
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