The Abounding American
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By Thomas William Hodgson Crosland 18 Mar, 2019
This is the kind of talk that one could hear in the clubs of London a matter of, say, two hundred and fifty years ago. In plain terms, Guy, poor devil, being a wastrel,—and a broken wastrel at that—had betaken himself to America, there probably t ... Read more
This is the kind of talk that one could hear in the clubs of London a matter of, say, two hundred and fifty years ago. In plain terms, Guy, poor devil, being a wastrel,—and a broken wastrel at that—had betaken himself to America, there probably to found one of the “fine old Virginia families” of which American writers, and particularly American fictional writers, are so prone to babble. America, of course, was really started not by the Indians or Columbus, but by the Pilgrim Fathers, assisted and backed up by several cargoes of blue-brained and cleverblooded spirits from the British Isles, whose minds were full of theology and whose souls were full of tea. I shall be told that it is unkind of me to make such remarks. Less
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Born in Leeds, The United Kingdom July 21, 1865 Died: December 23, 1924 Genre: Nonfiction, Poetry, Children's Books Thomas William Hodgson Crosland was born in Leeds on July 21, 1865. He was amon...
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