The Clockmaker
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217577670
Paperback|9780217577670
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VII. GO AHEAD. When we resumed our conversation, the Clock maker said, I guess we are the greatest nation on the face of the airth, and the most enlightened too. This was rather too arrogant to pass unnoticed, and I was about replying, that whatever doubts there might be on that subject, there could be none whatever that they were the most modest; when he continued, we go ahead, the Nova Scotians go astarn. Our ships go ahead of the ships of other folks, our steam-boats beat the British in speed, and so do our stage-coaches; and I reckon a real right down New York trotter might stump the univarse for going ahead. But since we introduced the Railroads, if we don't go ahead its a pity. We never fairly knew what going the whole hog was till then; we actilly went ahead of ourselves, and that's no easy matter I tell you. If they only had edication here, they might learn to do so too, but they don't know notliiif. You undervalue them, said I, they have their College and Academies, their grammar schools and primary institutions, and I believe there are few among them who cannot read and write. I guess all that's nothin', said he. As for Latin and Greek, we don't valy it a cent; we teach it, and so we do painting and music, because the English do, and we like to go ahead on 'em, even in them are things. As for reading, its well enough for them that has nothing to do, and writing is plaguy apt to bring a man to States-prison, particularly if he writes his name so like another man as to have it mistaken for his'n. Cyphering is the thing?if a man knows how to cypher, he is sure to grow rich. We are a calculating people, we all cypher. A horse that wont go ahead, is apt to run back, and the more you whip him the faster he goes astarn. That's jist the way wi...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217577670 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217577679 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $28.48 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 250 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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