 | 1819 - 610 pagina’s
...farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. " In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....refinement, therefore, finds nothing revolting in en intercourse with the lower orders in rural life, as he does in the lower orders of cities. He lays... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 476 pagina’s
...upon a cultivated mind. ' In rural occupations/ says Mr. Irving f and it needs little qualifying) ' there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man...external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, hut 1m cannot be vulgar.' We have partial and petulant accounts of England and Englishmen, from travelled... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1823 - 392 pagina’s
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....therefore, finds nothing revolting in an intercourse with thp lower orders in rural life, as he does when he casually mingles with the lower orders of cities.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pagina’s
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating o£_external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar. The man of refinement,... | |
 | 1819 - 606 pagina’s
...general system I have mentioned. " In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing It lead» a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty...rough, but he cannot be vulgar. The man of refinement, dieretbre, finds nothing revolting in an intercourse widi the lower orders in rural life, as he does... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1834 - 316 pagina’s
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....revolting in an intercourse with the lower orders of rural life, as he does when he casually mingles with the lower orders of cities. He lays aside his... | |
 | 1834 - 506 pagina’s
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....revolting in an intercourse with the lower orders of rural life, as he does when he casually mingles with the lower orders of cities. He lays aside his... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 284 pagina’s
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....revolting in an intercourse with the lower orders of moral life, as he does when he casually mingles with the lower of cities. He lays aside his distance... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pagina’s
...farmers. These , however, I believe , are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandenr and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind , operated upon by the purest and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1843 - 400 pagina’s
...small fanners. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....revolting in an intercourse with the lower orders of rural life, as he does when he casually mingles with the lower orders of cities. He lays aside his... | |
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In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such a man... 
