 | P. J. O'Rourke - 2007 - Страниц: 372
...President Andrew Jackson, was an actual backwoodsman. Jackson, in his 1829 inaugural address, says, "What good man would prefer a country covered with...improvements which art can devise or industry execute." The concept of "nature" is itself, so to speak, artificial. Are Ring-Dings elf food? Is Wal-Mart part... | |
 | Norman G. Finkelstein - 2003 - Страниц: 332
...continued to serve as the chief weapon of ideological self-defense. Andrew Jackson asked rhetorically, 'What good man would prefer a country covered with...studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms?' William Henry Harrison likewise queried, 'Is one of the fairest portions of the globe to remain in... | |
 | Martin Barker - 1995 - Страниц: 264
...in his presidential address to Congress, he asked: "What good man would prefer a country covered by forests and ranged by a few thousand savages, to our extensive Republic, studded with towns and prosperous farms . . . and filled with the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?"10... | |
 | Wilma A. Dunaway - 1996 - Страниц: 476
...Indians "to a land where their existence m[ight] be prolonged." What "good" American, he chastised, "would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged...devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 1 2,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?"21... | |
 | Lester D. Langley - 1996 - Страниц: 396
...which it was found by our forefathers," Jackson wrote, expressing a widely held view of Indian removal. "What good man would prefer a country covered with...Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms . . . , occupied by more than 1 2,000,000 happy people, and Iilled with all the blessings of liberty,... | |
 | David Brion Davis - 1997 - Страниц: 502
...not wish to see this continent restored to the condition in which it was found by our forefathers. What good man would prefer a country covered with...with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion? The present policy of the Govemment is but a continuation of the same progressive change... | |
 | Rachel Stein - 1997 - Страниц: 206
...Cherokee and other tribes from Georgia. Indians must give ground before the advances of the nation: "What good man would prefer a country covered with...with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?"25 Furthermore, because Indians failed to establish dominion over the natural world, Euro-Americans... | |
 | Walter A. McDougall - 1997 - Страниц: 316
...motive for expansion. Their motives were freedom and opportunity, as Andrew Jackson told the Congress: "What good man would prefer a country covered with...devise or industry execute, occupied by more than ca,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion?"44... | |
 | Edwina Taborsky - 1997 - Страниц: 252
...societies had acquired via their experience of linear time. Time as content meant cumulative progress, and 'what good man would prefer a country covered with...improvements which art can devise or industry execute ... and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion.'^ Aboriginal time and... | |
 | Delores J. Huff - 1997 - Страниц: 248
...appreciate the wealth of their homelands. 7 Indian removal: "What good man, demanded Andrew Jackson, would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged...savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities and towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry... | |
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What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute,... 
