Stately homes in America : from colonial times to the present day (1903)
Desmond, Harry W. (Harry William), 1863-1913, Croly, Herbert David, 1869-1930 · New York : D. Appleton and Company · leaf 116
e was good enough inwhich to design it. The spirit of the man who bolted hispie and doughnuts in shy and self-conscious silence pervadedthe land. As we have said, the English travelers of 1830 or there-about could see nothing in all this but the vulgarizing efifectof democracy. The American people… … THE TRANSITIONAL DWELLING happened to be a Frenchman, who visited the United States,and whose intellectual equanimity was not disturbed by theabsence of bishops and dukes, and no one can understandeither the performance or the promise of American democ-racy without a careful study of the…
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