The narrow, fanatical, and originally sincere puritanism of their ancestors has, in the course of six generations, degenerated into that amalgam of hypocrisy, cruelty, falsehood, unconsciousness of the faintest... France and the Confederate States - Página 9por John Welsford Cowell - 1865 - 37 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
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...points in the Yankee national character which ought to be borne in mind," thus delivered himself : " The narrow, fanatical, and originally sincere puritanism...cruelty, falsehood, unconsciousness of the faintest sentiments of self-respect, coarseness of self-assertion, insensibility to the opinions of others,... | |
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