 | 1819 - 610 pages
...farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. " In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....refinement, therefore, finds nothing revolting in en intercourse with the lower orders in rural life, as he does in the lower orders of cities. He lays... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1819 - 476 pages
...upon a cultivated mind. ' In rural occupations/ says Mr. Irving f and it needs little qualifying) ' there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man...external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, hut 1m cannot be vulgar.' We have partial and petulant accounts of England and Englishmen, from travelled... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1823 - 392 pages
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....therefore, finds nothing revolting in an intercourse with thp lower orders in rural life, as he does when he casually mingles with the lower orders of cities.... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1824 - 804 pages
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating o£_external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar. The man of refinement,... | |
 | English literature - 1819 - 606 pages
...general system I have mentioned. " In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing It lead» a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty...rough, but he cannot be vulgar. The man of refinement, dieretbre, finds nothing revolting in an intercourse widi the lower orders in rural life, as he does... | |
 | Washington Irving - Americans - 1834 - 316 pages
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....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... | |
 | Anthologies - 1834 - 506 pages
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....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... | |
 | Washington Irving - American essays - 1835 - 284 pages
...small farmers. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....revolting in an intercourse with the lower orders of moral life, as he does when he casually mingles with the lower of cities. He lays aside his distance... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1835 - 196 pages
...farmers. These , however, I believe , are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandenr and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind , operated upon by the purest and... | |
 | Washington Irving - Short stories, American - 1843 - 400 pages
...small fanners. These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....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... | |
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In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such a man... 
