| Nellie Elfa Turner - 1915 - 540 pagina’s
...Rural Life in England. The Sketch Book. 1 In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. 2 It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur...purest and most elevating of external influences. 3 Such a man may be simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar. 4 The man of refinement, therefore,... | |
| Sir William Alexander Craigie - 1924 - 156 pagina’s
...farmers, These, howe'-ver, I belie-ve, are but casu,al breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupa-tion there is nothing mean and deba-sing....influ,ences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he can not be vulgar. The man of refi-nement, therefore, finds nothing revo-lting in an intercourse with... | |
| Washington Irving - 1983 - 1198 pagina’s
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, arc but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....beauty; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind operatcd upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such a man may be simple and... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1853 - 312 pagina’s
...mentioned. O. 9*333. THE SAME, CONTINUED. IN rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. (t leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur...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... | |
| 1849 - 538 pagina’s
...small farmers. These, however. I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I Lave mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....scenes of natural grandeur and beauty; it leaves him lo the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences.... | |
| University of Bombay - 1903 - 1170 pagina’s
...and debasing. It leads t nM forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty ; it leave« him to tbi workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elenw? external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he «nnc* be vulgar. The man of... | |
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