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Article: Antiques.(America's relations with UK and France)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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I trust, that our alliance and intercourse with France may enable us, as a nation to shake off the leading-strings of Britain,--the English sternness and formality of manner; retaining, however, sufficient of their gravity, to produce, with French ease and elegance, a happy compound of national character and manners, yet to be modeled. The influence of this alliance will tend to remove the deep prejudice against France.
Entry in the journal of Elkanah Watson for 1779, from Men and Times of the Revolution; or Memoirs of Elkanah Watson, Including His Journals of Travels in Europe and America, from the Year 1777 to 1842, ed. Winslow C. Watson (1856; 2nd ed. 1857).
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