 | Fred Homer Williams - 1886 - 236 pagine
...settlers who established themselves on the shores of New England, he said, writing about 1840 : — " These men possessed in proportion to their number...greater mass of intelligence than is to be found in any European nation of our own time." In the minds of these men undoubtedly the dominant idea was the right... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1898 - 640 pagine
...buccaneers ; and, at the present day, the criminal courts of England supply the population of Australia. The settlers who established themselves on the shores...England all belonged to the more independent classes of then- native country. Their union on the soil of America at once presented the singular phenomenon... | |
 | Rufus Barrett Stone - 1919 - 288 pagine
...fortune beyond seas, but the germ of a great nation wafted by Providence to a predestined shore. . . . These men possessed, in proportion to their number,...greater mass of intelligence than is to be found in any European nation of our own time. . . . Nor did they cross the Atlantic to improve their situation or... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 758 pagine
...by buccaneers; and the criminal courts of England originally supplied the population of Australia. The settlers who established themselves on the shores...greater mass of intelligence than is to be found in any European nation of our own time. All, without a single exception, had received a good education, and... | |
| |
The settlers who established themselves on the shores of New England all belonged to the more independent classes of their native country. Their union on... 
