Henry David Thoreau Quote

So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects.


A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers (ed. 1866)


So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle,...

So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle,...

So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle,...

So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle,...