MARTIN VAN BUREN.
President of the United States.
London. Published by Richard Bentley. 1839.
ARISTOCRACY IN AMERICA.
FROM THE
SKETCH-BOOK OF A GERMAN NOBLEMAN.
EDITED BY
FRANCIS J. GRUND.
AUTHOR OF “THE AMERICANS IN THEIR MORAL, SOCIAL,
AND POLITICAL RELATIONS.”
“Why should the poor be flattered?
No: let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp,
And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee,
Where thrift may follow fawning.”
Shakspeare’s Hamlet, Act iii. Scene 2.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
LONDON:
RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty.
1839.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY,
Bangor House, Shoe Lane.
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CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
| PART II. | |
| CONTAINING A SHORT STAY IN BOSTON AND PHILADELPHIA. | |
| CHAPTER I. | |
| Arrival in Boston.—The Tremont House.—The Boston Common.—Aristocratic Exclusiveness of the Higher Classes.—The Massachusetts State-House.—Pathetic Elegy of a Boston Lawyer.—An Independent Gentleman, not a Speculator.—American Aristocracy contrasted with that of England.—The Aristocracy of America continually in contact with the Lower Orders.—Anecdote illustrating the Opposition of the Lower Classes to Aristocracy.—An Aristocratic Patron.—Economy of the American Aristocracy.—Northern and Southern Aristocracy contrasted | Page 3 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Cross-examination of Foreigners in the United States.—Definition of Common Sense—its high Value in America.—Aversion to Genius.—Sensible reply of a Boston Aristocrat with regard to a Parvenu from the Country.—Ladies buying themselves a Professor.—Boys at school learning for Money.—A[Pg iv] Boston fashionable Concert—Description of the Musicians and the Audience.—High Value of Morality in a Cantatrice.—Dangers of differing in matters of Taste from the leading Coteries.—Secret Police in Boston.—Reflections. | 28 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Maternal Affections of American Ladies—their Cause.—Want of Romance in the Lives of American Gentlemen.—Moral and Religious Cant.—Daniel Webster’s Principle of resisting arrogant Innovation.—Reflections on the Democratic, Aristocratic, and Monarchical Forms of Gov ... BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR! | |