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“Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.”

Source: Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches

“People get a bad impression of it [the English climate] by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.”

People Ifs Trying May Long Next Seeing Ought Treats England Climate Impression Weather Painter Tuesday Clerks Bad Impression

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.”

Kind Nations Ocean England Trade Climate Islands Vehicle Traffic Centre Harvest Invasion Port

Book:Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author

Source: Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author

“Half of the receipts in our cookbooks are mere murder to such constitutions and stomachs as we grow here. ...in America, owing to our brighter skies and more fervid climate, we have developed an acute, nervous delicacy of temperament far more akin to that of France than of England.”

America Grows Half Sky Food Constitution England Murder Cooking Mere Climate Nervous France Culinary Temperament Brighter Delicacy Owing Cookbook Receipts

Book:American Woman's Home

Source: American Woman's Home

“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”

“Britain possesses no climate, only weather.”

England Climate Weather Britain

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“the English, although partakers in the most variable and quixotic climate in the world, never become used to its vagaries, but comment upon them with shock and resentment as if all their lives had been spent in the predictable monsoon.”

Ifs World Used England Climate Weather Shock Comment Resentment Predictable Variables Monsoons Quixotic

Author:Ruth Rendell

“The climate of England has been the world's most powerful colonizing impulse.”

World Has Beens Powerful England Climate Impulse Most Powerful

Author:Russell Green

“Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.”

England Climate New England

Book:The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American

Source: The Oregon Trail: Juvenile History - - American