I think you are mistaken, Miss Effingham, for the public sentiment just now runs almost exclusively and popularly into the Grecian school. We build little besides temples for our churches, our banks, our taverns, our court-houses, and our dwellings. A... Eve Effingham: Or, Home - Page 34by James Fenimore Cooper - 1838Full view - About this book
| Frederick Jackson - 1841 - 254 pages
...since you left this country, that a neighbor of ours has built a brewery, on the model, as he says, of the Temple of the Winds." " Had it been a mill, one might understand the conceit." " You have seen the Capitol, Sir George, and what is it like ?" " A noble building, truly, and when... | |
| Periodicals - 1850 - 762 pages
...the different opinions he received ; or, what is quite as likely, apt to have no house at all.1 " ' 1 think you are mistaken, Miss Effingham, for the public...began to perceive that her visiter had some latent humor, though he produced ¡t in a manner to induce one to think him any thing but a droll. ' The mountains... | |
| Periodicals - 1850 - 766 pages
...our dwellings. A friend of mine has just built a brewery on the model of the Temple of the VVinds." " 'Had it been a mill, one might understand the conceit,'...began to perceive that her visiter had some latent humor, though he produced it in a manner to induce one to think him any thing but a drol!. l The mountains... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1852 - 554 pages
...if he paid much respect to the different opinions he received ; or, what is quite as likely, apt to have no house at all." " I think you are mistaken,...visiter had some latent humour, though he produced it in a manner to induce one to think him any thing but a droll. " The mountains must be doubly beautiful,... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 326 pages
...if he paid much respect to the different opinions he received ; or, what is quite as likely, apt to have no house at all." " I think you are mistaken,...conceit," said Eve, who now began to perceive that her visitor had some latent humour, though he produced it in a manner to induce one to think him anything... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1856 - 526 pages
...if he paid much respect to the different opinions he received ; or, what is tjuite as likely, apt to have no house at all." " I think you are mistaken,...conceit," said Eve, who now began to perceive that her visitor had some latent humor, though he produced it in a manner to induce one to think him anything... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1856 - 522 pages
...our banks, our taverns, our eourt-houses, and oar dwellings. A friend of mine has just built a brewe on the model of the Temple of the Winds." " Had it been a mill, one might understand the eoneeit," said Eve, who now began to pereeive that her visitor had some latent humor, though he produeed... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1800 - 510 pages
...if he paid much respect to the different opinions he received ; or, what is quite as likely, apt to have no house at all." " I think you are mistaken,...conceit," said Eve, who now began to perceive that her visitor had some latent humor, though he produced it in a manner to induce one to think him anything... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1860 - 504 pages
...if he paid much respect to the different opinions he received ; or, what is quite as likely, apt to have no house at all." " I think you are mistaken,...visiter had some latent humour, though he produced it in a manner to induce one to think him any thing but a droll. " The mountains must be doubly beautiful,... | |
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1860 - 504 pages
...if he paid much respect to the different opinions he received ; or, what is quite as likely, apt to have no house at all." " I think you are mistaken,...visiter had some latent humour, though he produced it in a manner to induce one to think him any thing but a droll. " The mountains must be doubly beautiful,... | |
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