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" Upon the whole, a walk through New York will disappoint an Englishman : there is, on the surface of society, a carelessness, a laziness, an unsocial indifference, which freezes the blood and disgusts the judgment. An evening stroll along Broad-way, when... "
Sketches of America: A Narrative of a Journey of Five Thousand Miles Through ... - Page 12
by Henry Bradshaw Fearon - 1818 - 462 pages
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Sketches of America, a narrative of a journey through the eastern and ...

Henry Bradshaw Fearon - 1818 - 482 pages
...surface of society, a carelessness, a laziness, an unsocial indifference, which freezes the blood and disgusts the judgment. An evening stroll along Broad-way,...alight, will please more than one at noon-day. The shops then look rather better, though their proprietors, of course, remain the same : their cold indifference...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 21

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1819 - 622 pages
...their proprietors, of course, remain the same : their cold indifference may, by themselves, be mistaken for independence, but no person of thought and observation...concede to them that they have selected a wise mode of exhibit. ing that dignified feeling :' — this, however, is precisely the mistake which Mr. Fearon...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 21

1819 - 596 pages
...so edified Mr. Fearon a few lines above ?) ' an unsocial indifference, which freezes the blood and disgusts the judgment. An evening stroll along Broadway...alight, will please more than one at noon-day. The shops then look rather better, though their proprietors, of course, remain the same : their cold indifference...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 21

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1819 - 592 pages
...so edified Mr. Fearon a few lines above ?) ' an unsocial indifference, which freezes the blood and disgusts the judgment. An evening stroll along Broadway...alight, will please more than one at noon-day. The shops then look rather better, though their proprietors, of course, remain the same : their cold indifference...
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Travels in North America, from Modern Writers: With Remarks and Observations ...

William Bingley - Canada - 1821 - 374 pages
...there is an apparent carelessness, a laziness, an unsocial indifference, which freezes the blood and disgusts the judgment. An evening -stroll along Broadway, when the lamps are lighted, will please more than one at noonday. The shops will look rather better, but the manners of...
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A Compendious View of the Most Recent and Interesting Travels in Different ...

Africa - 1831 - 320 pages
...surface of society, a carelessness, a laziness, an unsocial indifference, which freezes the blood and disgusts the judgment. An evening stroll along Broad-way,...a wise mode of exhibiting that dignified feeling. We disapprove most decidedly of the obsequious servility of the London shopkeepers, but are not prepared...
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Classical Economics: January 1819 to January 1820, Volume 1

Donald Rutherford - Classical school of economics - 1996 - 520 pages
...which so edified Mr. Fearon a few lines above?) 'an unsocial indifference, which freezes the blood and disgusts the judgment. An evening stroll along Broadway...alight, will please more than one at noon-day. The shops then look rather better, though their proprietors, of course, remain the same: their cold indifference...
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Americans in British Literature, 1770-1832: A Breed Apart

Christopher Flynn - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 180 pages
...Court of St. James in the Madison administration, to become Secretary of State under James Monroe. no person of thought and observation will ever concede...selected a wise mode of exhibiting that dignified feeling."17 Aware that his criticisms might betray hypocrisy, or at least inconsistency, Fearon immediately...
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