The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence, Volume 2Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909 |
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... Leading traits As owners of homesteads Settlement of the limestone areas . · Their choice of land with rich forest growth The best farmers in the United States . American specialties produced by Germans Fruit - growing - Schwerdkopf ...
... Leading traits As owners of homesteads Settlement of the limestone areas . · Their choice of land with rich forest growth The best farmers in the United States . American specialties produced by Germans Fruit - growing - Schwerdkopf ...
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... leading formative elements of the nation ; sec- ondly , by equal distribution of the German population over the whole territory of the United States ; and finally , by the extensive settlement of the German colonists on the frontier and ...
... leading formative elements of the nation ; sec- ondly , by equal distribution of the German population over the whole territory of the United States ; and finally , by the extensive settlement of the German colonists on the frontier and ...
Pagina 27
... leading elements , therefore , if the above methods of calculation be correct , compare as follows : German element English element Irish and Scotch elements 18,400,000 20,400,000 13,900,000 52,700,000 Total Leaving for other national ...
... leading elements , therefore , if the above methods of calculation be correct , compare as follows : German element English element Irish and Scotch elements 18,400,000 20,400,000 13,900,000 52,700,000 Total Leaving for other national ...
Pagina 28
... leading traits ; as owners of homesteads ; set- tlement of the limestone areas ; their choice of land with rich forest growth ; the best farmers in the United States American specialties produced by Germans ; fruit - growing ...
... leading traits ; as owners of homesteads ; set- tlement of the limestone areas ; their choice of land with rich forest growth ; the best farmers in the United States American specialties produced by Germans ; fruit - growing ...
Pagina 31
... leading nationalities is as shown in the table on page 32.1 The table shows that the farmers of German parentage own 522,252 farm - homes , or almost three times as many as the next largest foreign element , viz . , that of Great ...
... leading nationalities is as shown in the table on page 32.1 The table shows that the farmers of German parentage own 522,252 farm - homes , or almost three times as many as the next largest foreign element , viz . , that of Great ...
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Pagina 148 - I remember when they modestly declined intermeddling in our elections, but now they come in droves and carry all before them, except in one or two counties.
Pagina 211 - Reader." A few copies of Noehden's Grammar were imported, and a few copies of I forget whose "Pocket Dictionary," fortunately too copious for an Anglo-Saxon pocket, and suggesting the generous amplitude of the Low Dutch costume, as described in Irving's mythical "History of New York.
Pagina 433 - This is the largest sum ever given by a man in the history of the race for any social or philanthropic purposes.
Pagina 204 - Strasburg, who gave instruction in mathematics. He was willing to do what he could for me in German, but he warned me that his pronunciation was very bad, as was that of all Alsace, which had become a part of France. Nor was it possible to get books. I borrowed a Meidinger's Grammar, French and German, from my friend, Mr. Everett, and sent to New Hampshire, where I knew there was a German Dictionary, and procured it. I also obtained a copy of Goethe's "Werther
Pagina 148 - English; the Signs in our Streets have inscriptions in both languages, and in some places only German: They begin of late to make all their Bonds and other legal...
Pagina 147 - I am perfectly of your mind, that measures of great temper are necessary with the Germans ; and am not without apprehensions, that, through their indiscretion, or ours, or both, great disorders may one day arise among us.
Pagina 537 - The Fatherland: 1450-1700, showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration, and development of the western continent, with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Pagina 245 - I never saw a population so totally divested of gaiety; there is no trace of this feeling from one end of the Union to the other.
Pagina 148 - German. They begin of late to make all their bonds and other legal instruments in their own language, which (though I think it ought not to be) are allowed good in...
Pagina 148 - Few of their children in the country know English. They import many books from Germany; and of the six printing-houses in the province, two are entirely German, two half German half English, and but two entirely English.