 He is an American, who, leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad...  American Literature - Page 138by Katharine Lee Bates - 1897 - 351 lehteFull view - About this book
 | Alex Stepick, Guillermo Grenier, Max Castro, Marvin Dunn - 2003 - 212 lehte
...aliens positively. As early as 1782, the French immigrant Michel Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur claimed, "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a...posterity will one day cause great changes in the world" (Crevecoeur 1782, 54-55). One hundred years ago, as America confronted its largest ever influx of new... | |
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...superior to anything before it (Gordon 1964, Ch. 5). Crevecoeur's earlier dream of a melting pot wherein "individuals of all nations are melted into a new...posterity will one day cause great changes in the world" had, by the 1880s become a nightmare to a significant proportion of the leadership of the American... | |
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...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a...posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.1 This impression of the egalitarian society of the very new United States clearly suggests ethnic... | |
 | Andreas Hess - 2003 - 504 lehte
...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great alma mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western pilgrims,... | |
 | Richard D. Alba, Victor Nee - 2009 - 388 lehte
...the new mode of life he has embraced, the new government he obeys, and the new rank he holds. . . . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world.3 In 1845, Ralph Waldo Emerson... | |
 | Sanford Levinson - 2003 - 362 lehte
...J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur memorably asked, "What then, is the American, this new man? . . . Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world."1 A fundamental topic of debate... | |
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...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a...the world. Americans are the western pilgrims, who arc carrying along with them that great mass of arts, sciences, vigor, and industry which began long... | |
 | Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 lehte
...bleed. We are the most perfect society now existing in the world. Here man is free as he ought to be.... Here individuals of all nations are melted into a...whose labors and posterity will one day cause great change in the world. / — Hector St. John Crevecoeur . -. ifflM Simm affix the STAMP. Print master... | |
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...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. al nomination in our history. But our healthv competition should make us labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. Americans are the western Pilgrims,... | |
 | Lothar Bredella, Eva Burwitz-Melzer - 2004 - 378 lehte
...new rank he holds. He becomes an American by being received in the broad lap of our great Alma Mater. Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause great changes in the world. (Crevecceur in Freesel994, 5)... | |
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