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The Portland Gazette
Portland, Cumberland County, Maine
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General Harper and his Lady from Baltimore arrived in England after touring the continent, where they are much esteemed and he is a favorite among American countrymen in Europe. The report discusses benefits of foreign travel for Americans, enhancing attachment to U.S. institutions, and contrasts pre-Revolution education abroad with the rapid growth of domestic literary institutions since.
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It has become quite common for Americans to travel; much benefit may certainly be derived from visiting foreign countries, and not the least, that it gives us more ardent attachment to our own institutions, by showing their superiority to all others. It gives us also more enlarged and liberal views of political men and measures, and tempers those local feelings and partialities, which almost invariably exist in the minds of those, who have hardly passed the limits of the narrow territory that gave them birth.
Before the revolution the sons of the wealthy were sent for their education to the mother country; but since that event our literary institutions have multiplied rapidly and the means of a liberal and classical education have been so widely extended that not only many more may receive its advantages than have hitherto done, but they may receive equally as good an one at much less expense and trouble. Our seminaries are acquiring a maturity and vigor too, which time and able management will undoubtedly increase.
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much esteemed in europe and a favorite with all his countrymen there.
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General Harper and his Lady from Baltimore have arrived in England after having made the tour of the continent. Letters from the latter country say they are much esteemed there and that he is now a favorite with all his countrymen in Europe. It has become quite common for Americans to travel; much benefit may certainly be derived from visiting foreign countries, and not the least, that it gives us more ardent attachment to our own institutions, by showing their superiority to all others. It gives us also more enlarged and liberal views of political men and measures, and tempers those local feelings and partialities, which almost invariably exist in the minds of those, who have hardly passed the limits of the narrow territory that gave them birth. Before the revolution the sons of the wealthy were sent for their education to the mother country; but since that event our literary institutions have multiplied rapidly and the means of a liberal and classical education have been so widely extended that not only many more may receive its advantages than have hitherto done, but they may receive equally as good an one at much less expense and trouble. Our seminaries are acquiring a maturity and vigor too, which time and able management will undoubtedly increase.