While the focus in the landscape of Old World cities was commonly government structures, churches, or the residences of rulers, th...e landscape and the skyline of American cities have boasted their hotels, department stores, office buildings, apartments, and skyscrapers. In this grandeur, Americans have expressed their Booster Pride, their hopes for visitors and new settlers, and customers, for thriving commerce and industry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an ala...rming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Notwithstanding the unaccountable apathy with which of late years the Indians have been sometimes abandoned to their enemies, it i...s not to be doubted that it is the good pleasure and the understanding of all humane persons in the Republic, of the men and the matrons sitting in the thriving independent families all over the land, that they shall be duly cared for; that they shall taste justice and love from all to whom we have delegated the office of dealing with them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Having been tenant long to a rich Lord, Not thriving, I resolved to be bold,... And make a suit unto him, to afford A new small-rented lease, and cancel th' old.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are then most thriving when left most fre...e to individual enterprise. Protection from casual embarrassments, however, may sometimes be seasonably interposed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But, after the war was over, just think what came to pass-- A letter, sir; and the two were safe back in the old Bluegrass....r />The lad had got across the border, riding Kentucky Belle; And Kentuck she was thriving, and fat, and hearty, and well; He cared for her, and kept her, nor touched her with whip or spur: Ah! we've had many horses, but never a horse like her!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is ... to my three children [that] I owe my very being. In attempting to fulfill my duty to them as a mother, I met the challen...ge of their helplessness, their innocence, their dependence. Despising cowardice in others, I wished to prove myself no coward. Believing in the good, the gentle, the beautiful things of life, I addressed myself to the sweet duty of keeping these attributes for my children's sake and my own. And in striving to provide a living for them, I found a success beyond my wildest dreams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »