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 316
ngton and Lincoln, instead of beinggreat in the brutal and unscrupulous Napoleonic manner,have managed to unite with their greatness a certain defer-ence to public opinion, a considerable moral circumspec-tion, and a kindly and humane disposition toward otherpeople. Well, we believe it can be… … ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS nevertheless conform to what we like to believe are the char-acteristic traits of our American democratic manhood. Andthis state of mind on their part is not, as Mr. Ghent wouldhave us believe, a merely selfish benevolence; it proceedsfrom a genuine interest in the…
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