Romantic days in the early republic . 2 a:. DANIEL WEBSTER. From the ?portrait by Stuart in the possession of George Fred Williams, Dedham, 415. I IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC 425 the good woman told us that she had over-slept herself, and that the cow had come andgone again, not liking, I expect to hankerabout for nothing, poor thing. Verily, as drolly observes, there is more thanone way of keeping a cow. And there is more than one way of writingones impressions of life in a foreign would be much the poorer, I maintain,without the pages in which Mr


Romantic days in the early republic . 2 a:. DANIEL WEBSTER. From the ?portrait by Stuart in the possession of George Fred Williams, Dedham, 415. I IN THE EARLY REPUBLIC 425 the good woman told us that she had over-slept herself, and that the cow had come andgone again, not liking, I expect to hankerabout for nothing, poor thing. Verily, as drolly observes, there is more thanone way of keeping a cow. And there is more than one way of writingones impressions of life in a foreign would be much the poorer, I maintain,without the pages in which Mrs. Trollope hasembalmed her emotions concerning our sins ofomission and commission during that periodof her visit. For it is precisely because she be-came immensely stirred by what she then sawand experienced that her book is excellentreading where certain other volumes — Baronvon Raumers, for example, — makes one readyfor a long winters nap. And Harriet Marti-neaus work, though altogether praiseworthyfrom the point of view of accura


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