| Robert Walsh - Serial publications - 1836 - 522 pages
...and the actors of the age. A new science of politics is indispensable to a new world." ********* " I confess, that in America, I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself—with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions—in order to learn... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1838 - 534 pages
...peaceful and the most complete, in order to discern its natural consequences, and, if it be possible, to distinguish the means by which it may be rendered profitable. I confess that in ArTtfirjpa. Т рдлу more than America; I sought the image ot__tlemocracy itself, with its inclinations,... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 714 pages
...peaceful and the most complete, in order to discern its natural consequences, and, if it be possible, to distinguish the means by which it may be rendered...America ; I sought the image of democracy itself, with it's inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 500 pages
...have examined America : my wish has been to find instruction by which we might ourselves profit." " I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations,...and its passions, in order to learn what we have to hope or fear from its progress." He thinks that the principle of democracy has sprung into new life... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1841 - 522 pages
...examined America : my wish has been to find instruction, by which we might ourselves profit." — " I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations,...prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what tee have to hope or fear from its progress." He thinks that the principle of democracy has sprung into... | |
| Methodist Church - 1841 - 668 pages
...wish has been to find instruction by which we might ourselves profit." And again : — " I sought'the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations,...and its passions, in order to learn what WE have to hope and fear from its progress." And having adverted to some of the causes which have been at work... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...examined America : my wish has been to find instruction, by which we might ourselves profit." — " I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations,...and its passions, in order to learn what we have to hope or fear from its progress." He thinks that the principle of democracy has sprung into new life... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1863 - 594 pages
...natural consequences, and to find out, if possible, the means ofrendering.it profitable to mankind. I confess that, in America, I saw more than America ; I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - Constitutional history - 1870 - 628 pages
...natural consequences, and to find out, if possible, the means of rendering it profitable to mankind. I confess that, in America, I saw more than America ; I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 646 pages
...rendering it profitable to mankind. I confess that in America I saw mew than America: I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations,...character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to team nrh*t we h»ve to fear or to hope from its progress." It is this detachment from his subject that... | |
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