 | Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - 1909 - Liczba stron: 544
...industry amusement, in an equal degree with the inhabitants of the United States of America. . . . Business is the very soul of an American; he pursues...comforts of life, but as the fountain of all human happiness: . . . Machines are invented, new lines of communication established, and the depths of the... | |
 | Marvin Meyers - 1960 - Liczba stron: 324
..."Upl upl'" By common report Americans of Jackson's time were eternally on the prowl. To Francis Grund: "Business is the very soul of an American: he pursues...life, but as the fountain of all human felicity." He saw the same high pitch of business involvement in town and country, in all classes. The pursuit... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business - 1976 - Liczba stron: 502
...national greatness, but they are absolutely wretched without it, and instead of the "dolce far niente," know but the horrors of idleness. Business is the...the followers of Mohammed for the spreading of the Koran.1 Today, Americans still look for deep satisfactions in work, but too many are not finding them.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business - 1976 - Liczba stron: 492
...national greatness, but they are absolutely wretched without it, and instead of the 'dolce far niente', know but the horrors of idleness. Business is the...crusader ever evinced for the conquest of the Holy Uand. or the followers of Mohammed for the spreading of the Koran." x Today, Americans still look for... | |
 | Daniel T. Rodgers - 2009 - Liczba stron: 316
...national greatness, but they are absolutely wretched without it, and instead of the "dolce farniente," know but the horrors of idleness. Business is the...of life, but as the fountain of all human felicity ... it is as if all America were but one gigantic workshop, over the entrance of which there is the... | |
 | 1980 - Liczba stron: 1100
...are absolutely wretched without it, and instead of the dolce far niente, (enjoyment of doing nothing) know but the horrors of idleness. Business is the...followers of Mohammed for the spreading of the Koran.' The frontier offered dreams, hopes and opportunities for the ambitious. The new entrepreneur had lost... | |
 | Bernard Rosenthal - 1980 - Liczba stron: 278
...nation in a way alien to the quest Thoreau would enunciate with the same trope. Grund had written, Business is the very soul of an American; he pursues...the followers of Mohammed for the spreading of the Koran.17 If both Thoreau and Grund too easily stereotyped a whole nation, both correctly understood... | |
 | Robert Eisenberger - 1989 - Liczba stron: 306
...happiness, and the foundation of their national greatness, but they are absolutely wretched without it. ... Business is the very soul of an American: he pursues...of life, but as the fountain of all human felicity . . . it is as if all America were but one gigantic workshop, over the entrance of which there is the... | |
 | Kathel Austin Kerr, Amos J. Loveday, Mansel G. Blackford - 1990 - Liczba stron: 152
...very soul of an American," wrote Francis Grund in 1837, "he pursues it, not as a means for procuring himself and his family the necessary comforts of life, but as the fountain of all human felicity." As this statement suggests, the significance of business to the lives and thoughts of Americans makes... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - Liczba stron: 428
...natural greatness, but they are absolutely wretched without it, and instead of the "dolcefar niente" know but the horrors of idleness. Business is the...all human felicity; and shows as much enthusiastic ardour in his application to it as any crusader ever evinced for the conquest of the Holy Land, or... | |
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Business is the very soul of an American: he pursues it, not as a means of procuring for himself and his family the necessary comforts of life, but as the fountain of all human felicity... 
