The soldier here, as everywhere in Canada, appeared to be put forward, and by his best foot. They were in the proportion of the so...ldiers to the laborers in an African ant-hill.... On every prominent ledge you could see England's hands holding the Canadas, and I judged from the redness of her knuckles that she would soon have to let go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You look out from the ramparts of the citadel beyond the frontiers of civilization.... It is but a few years since Bouchette decla...red that the country ten leagues north of the British capital of North America was as little known as the middle of Africa. Thus the citadel under my feet, and all historical associations, were swept away again by an influence from the wilds and from Nature, as if the beholder had read her history,--an influence which, like the Great River itself, flowed from the Arctic fastnesses and Western forests with irresistible tide over all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we apply the term revolution to what happened in North America between 1776 and 1829, it has a special meaning. Normally, the w...ord describes the process by which man transforms himself from one kind of man, living in one kind of society, with one way of looking at the world, into another kind of man, another society, another conception of life.... The American case is different: it is not a question of the Old Man transforming himself into the New, but of the New Man becoming alive to the fact that he is new, that he has been transformed already without his having realized it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not speak with any fondness but the language of coolest history, when I say that Boston commands attention as the town which ...was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the civilization of North America.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I thought that when they said Atlantic Charter, that meant me and everybody in Africa and Asia and everywhere. But it seems like t...he Atlantic is an ocean that does not touch anywhere but North America and Europe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
New York is a meeting place for every race in the world, but the Chinese, Armenians, Russians, and Germans remain foreigners. So d...oes everyone except the blacks. There is no doubt but that the blacks exercise great influence in North America, and, no matter what anyone says, they are the most delicate, spiritual element in that world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anyt...hing else available. Western civilization not only provides a bit of life, a pinch of liberty and the occasional pursuance of happiness, it's also the only thing that's ever tried to. Our civilization is the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Bostonians are really, as a race, far inferior in point of anything beyond mere intellect to any other set upon the continent ...of North America. They are decidedly the most servile imitators of the English it is possible to conceive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable w...alls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »