Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper--Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by James Fenimore Cooper

Author:James Fenimore Cooper [COOPER, JAMES FENIMORE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Parts Edition 25 of 46 by Delphi Classics
Publisher: Delphi Classics (Parts Edition)
Published: 2017-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

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[ This remark of Mr. Cornelius Littlepage’s, may induce a smile in the reader. But, few persons of fifty can be found, who cannot recall the time, when it was a rare thing to imagine anything American, as good as its English counterpart. The American who could write a book — a real, live book — forty years since, was a sort of prodigy. It was the same with him who could paint any picture beyond a common portrait. The very fruits and natural productions of the country were esteemed, doubtingly; and he was a bold man who dared to extol even canvass-back ducks, in the year 1800! At the present day, the feeling is fast undergoing an organic change. It is now the fashion to extol everything American, and from submitting to a degree that was almost abject, to the feeling of colonial dependency, the country is filled, to-day, with the most profound provincial self-admiration. It is to be hoped that the next change will bring us to something like the truth. — EDITOR.]

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