Book/Printed Material New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788.
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Image 1 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. NEW TRAVELS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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Image 2 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788.- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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Image 3 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. NEW TRAVELS IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. PERFORMED IN 1788. BY J acques P ierre BRISSOT DE WARVILLE. [1754–1793] TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. A People without Morals may acquire Liberty, but…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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Image 4 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. WAR DEPARTMENT LIBRARY OCT 19 1899 E164 .B8917 By transfer NOV 8 1915 16-12303- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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Image 5 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. CONTENTS. Letter Page I. From M. Claviere to M. Warville, hinting a Plan of Observation on the political, civil and military Existence of the United States 45 II. Soil, Productions, Emigrations, 54…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 6 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. X. Funeral of a Quaker. A Quaker Meeting 194 XI. The Bettering-House 201 XII. Hospital of Lunaticks 212 XIII. On Benjamin Franklin 216 XIV. Steam Boat. Reflexions on the Character of the…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 7 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. XXXII. On the Reproaches cast upon the Quakers by different Writers 388 XXXIII. Religious Principles of the Quakers 400 XXXIV. Political Principles of the Quakers. Their Refufal to take Arms, pay Taxes,…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 8 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788.- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 9 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. PREFACE OF THE TRANSLATOR. NO traveller, I believe, of this age, has made a more ufeful present to Europe, than M. de Warville in the publication of the following Tour in the…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 10 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. ii Many people read a little in the preface, before they buy the book; and I shall probably be accused of being in the interest of the Bookseller, and of making an…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 11 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. iii to draw that advantage from them that the natural and adventitious circumstances of the two countries would indicate to reasonable men. There is no spot on the globe, out of England,…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 12 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. iv begin to enquire after knowledge; a few ministerial governors of royal provinces, whose business it always was to give false information: such are the men whose errors have been uniformly copied…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 13 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. v such able commanders, who could doubt of their doing execution? Indeed their operations have been too fatal to us. Our false ideas of the Americans have done us more injury, even…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 14 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. vi had left his country in disgrace, and therefore intended to write against it. And the book really has this appearance; it has passed for a long time in England as a…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 15 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. vii a century, That after beating our armies they could rival our manufactories; that they could do without us much better than we could without them. M. de Warville has taught his…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 16 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. viii M. de Warville is a sober, uniform, indefatigable, and courageous defender of the rights of mankind; he has certainly done much in his own country in bringing forward the present Revolution.…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 17 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. THE publication of Voyages and Travels will doubtless appear, at first view, an operation foreign to the present circumstances of France. I should even myself regret the time…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 18 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. x but we must be taught by them the secret of preserving it. This secret consists in the morals of the people; the Americans have it; and I see with grief, not…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 19 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xi and scourges, or else society will no longer be but a state of war, a scene of deplorable anarchy, to be terminated by its destruction. Without morals there can be no…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 20 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xii trample reason under foot; and do you respect it abroad, in your intercourse with your fellow-citizens? He that respects not reason in the lonely presence of his household gods, can have…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 21 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xiii Happy the people who despise this hypocrisy, who have the courage to degrade, to chastise, to excommunicate these double men, possessing the tongue of Cato, and the soul of Tiberius. Happy…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 22 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xiv upon him praises, places, and honours; then it is that this people discover the full measure of their weakness, their irresolution, and their own proper corruption; they become their own executioners;…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 23 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xv but they are flexible; they are credulous, they are enthusiastic, they are easily deceived. How often, in their infatuation, have they applauded secret traitors, who have advised them to the most…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 24 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xvi without regard to their personal interest! These true friends, these real brothers of the people, are not to be formed in those infamous gambling houses, where the representatives sport with the…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 25 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xvii of insolent lackies, who regard me with disdain, because I am like Curius, incomptis capillis : they address you with the appellation of lordship ; they give you still those vain…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 26 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xviii bring back the people to your feet; I will attach them to your car; I will enchain the tongues and pens of those independent men who brave you. A people may…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 27 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xix Is it not evident, for instance, that private morals associate naturally with a rural life; that, of consequence, manners would much improve, by inducing men to return from the city to…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 28 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xx the low price of books and of newspapers. How rapidly would the revolution consolidate, if the government had the wisdom to frank the public papers from the expence of postage! It…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 29 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xxi repair the defect with which representative republics are reproached, that the commonwealth is the business of but few. I cannot enlarge upon all the means; but it would be rendering a…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 30 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xxii these two acres would not be sufficient for his subsistence; the nature of things calls a great number of the French to live in cities. Commerce, the mechanic arts, and divers…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 31 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xxiii If you wish to honour the mechanic arts, give instruction to those who exercise them: choose among them the best instructed, and advance them in public employments; and disdain not to…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 32 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xxiv Our democrats of the court praise indeed, with a borrowed enthusiasm, a Franklin or an Adams; they say, and even with a silly astonishment, that one was a printer, and the…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 33 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xxv of the haughty Spaniard. This is the portrait of men who feel their dignity, and know the superiority of freemen over the slaves of kings. Quem neque pauperies, neque mors, neque…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 34 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xxvi under the eyes of the people, the great examples of virtue furnished by ancient and modern history; it is there that detached parts of the work, which I now publish, may…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 35 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xxvii which, to adore the Supreme Being, make martyrs of part of the human race. Thus you will see all the Americans, in whose minds the jealousy of the mother country had…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 36 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xxviii multiplying every-where moral institutions and patriotic establishments; and, above all, never separating the idea of public from private virtues. Such is the consoling picture, which these Travels will offer to the…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 37 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xxix Can a people without government be happy? Yes; if you can suppose a whole people with good morals; and this is not a chimera. Will you see an example? observe the…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 38 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xxx appellation indicates the character of a class of men so little known among us, that they have not acquired a name. There will be one formed, I have no doubt; but,…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 39 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xxxi laws?—have morals!— in pessima republica plurimæ leges. Morals supply perfectly, the necessity of laws; laws supply but imperfectly, and in a miserable manner, the place of morals. Would you augment your…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
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Image 40 of New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788. xxxii greatest degree of liberty, secures the greatest degree of prosperity? I thought it very useful and very necessary to prove these principles from great examples; and this is my reason for…- Contributor: Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre) - Barlow, Joel - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1792
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Title
- New travels in the United States of America. Performed in 1788.
Names
- Brissot de Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre), 1754-1793.
- Barlow, Joel, 1754-1812, translator.
- Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Dublin, Printed by W. Corbet, for P. Byrne, A. Gueber [etc.] 1792.
Headings
- - United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
Notes
- - "This volume comprises M. de Warville's two first volumes. His third, on the commerce of America, has been before published in English." - Note, 4th prelim. leaf.
- - Translated by Joel Barlow.
- - ESTC T107218
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- 4 p. l., xliii, [45]-483 p. 22 cm.
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- E164 .B8917
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- 16012303
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- 1280179
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- Barlow, Joel
- Brissot De Warville, J.-P. (Jacques-Pierre)
- Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)