Americans
And the Americans (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Americans: And the Americans<br><br>Thackebay, in one of his amusing novels, remarks, To see with ones own eyes, men and countries, is better 1 than reading all the books of travels in the world. So think the majority of English parents in affluent circumstances, and accordingly the education of young men who have attended the classes at our great seminaries of learning, is not considered as complete until they have made what we usually style the grand tour. In lands celebrated by poets and philosophers of the olden time, they finish their classical studies, and begin their observations on the aspect of things in the world. Having in the halls of the university repeated the burning language of Cicero, and pored over the finished strains of the JVTantuan bard, they set out on a pilgrim age to the ruins of that forum which once rung with the plaudits of excited Romans; and to those scenes of rural beauty which Virgil, in his Greorgics, so accurately describes.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.