 | Virginia Waddy - English language - 1889 - 432 pages
...you hear his voice, and in an instant he is gone, and nothing but vacancy shows his loss. — Dana. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he can not be vulgar. The man of refinement, therefore, finds nothing revolting in an intercourse with... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - English language - 1889 - 432 pages
...there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and briuty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated...influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he can not be vulgar. The man of refinement, therefore, finds nothing revolting in an intercourse with... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - English language - 1889 - 428 pages
...you hear his voice, and in an instant he is gone, and nothing but vacancy shows his loss. — Dana. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur and br luty ; it leaves him to the workings of his own mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1891 - 278 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....be simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar. The mac. of refinement, therefore, finds nothing revolting in an intercourse with the lower orders in rural... | |
 | James Vincent Coombs - Elocution - 1891 - 420 pages
...Sophia was. No husband should speak well of any lady but his wife. RURAL LIFE IN ENGLAND. In rural life there is nothing mean and debasing. It leads a man...and beauty ; it leaves him to the workings of his mind, operated upon by the purest and most elevating of external influences. Such a man may be simple... | |
 | Washington Irving - American fiction - 1894 - 280 pages
...farmers. so These, however, I believe, are but casual breaks in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, but he 5 cannot be vulgar. The man of refinement, therefore, finds nothing revolting in an intercourse with... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - English language - 1897 - 426 pages
...care of the author, and therefore probably without his knowledge. — JOHNSON: Preface to Shakespeare. 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 - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1901 - 546 pages
...in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debas- 5 ing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur...simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar. The man 10 of refinement, therefore, finds nothing revolting in an intercourse with the lower orders in rural... | |
 | Washington Irving - Catskill Mountains Region (N.Y.) - 1901 - 542 pages
...in the general system I have mentioned. In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debas- 5 ing. It leads a man forth among scenes of natural grandeur...simple and rough, but he cannot be vulgar. The man 10 of refinement, therefore, finds nothing revolting in an intercourse with the lower orders in rural... | |
 | Cora Marsland - Readers - 1902 - 272 pages
...and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. ALFRED TENNYSON. THE CHARMS OP KURAL LIFE In rural occupation there is nothing mean and debasing....external influences. Such a man may be simple and rough, hut he cannot be vulgar. The man of refinement, therefore, finds nothing revolting in an intercourse... | |
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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... 
