 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 500 pages
...the Court in what he was about to say.* The newspapers related the fact without any farther comment. The Americans combine the notions of Christianity...seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live. * The New York Spectator of August 23, 1831, relates the fact in the following; terms: " The Court... | |
 | Henry Lee - United States - 1839 - 292 pages
...thankfulness of nations, is my sincere prayer." M. de Tocqueville remarks, (Democracy in America, p. 287,) "The Americans combine the notions of Christianity...seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live." This has been regarded as a high compliment to American democracy, and the more so, as coming from... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 714 pages
...the Court in what he was about to say.* The newspapers related the fact without any farther comment. The Americans combine the notions of Christianity...in their minds, that it is impossible to make them con* ceive the one without the other ; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren... | |
 | Massachusetts Bible Society - Bible - 1853 - 814 pages
...dissolved and never has been dissolved. " The Americans, [he says], combine the notions of Christianity and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible...to make them conceive the one without the other." He was right. The equality of all men before God, — derived from no other authority than the Bible,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1855 - 922 pages
...cause in a Christian country, where a witness had been permitted to testify without such belief." 334 The Americans combine the notions of Christianity...from that barren traditionary faith which seems to regelate in the soul rather than to live. I have known of societies formed by the Americans to send... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1863 - 594 pages
...therefore, not because he docs not believe what others believe, but because he canuot be sworn. — AM. ED.] The Americans combine the notions of Christianity...barren, traditionary faith which seems to vegetate rather than to live in the soul. I have known of societies formed by the Americans to send out ministers... | |
 | William Speer - History - 1870 - 780 pages
...weighty in regard to this subject. A. DE TOCQUEVILLE, Democracy in America, vol. i., pp. 332-335 : "The Americans combine the notions of Christianity...which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to lire. " In the United States religion exercises but little influence upon the laws and npon the details... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Constitutional history - 1870 - 628 pages
...therefore, not because he doea not believe what others believe, but because he cannot be sworn. — AM ED.] The Americans combine the notions of Christianity...barren, traditionary faith which seems to vegetate rather than to live in the soul. I have known of societies formed by the Americans to send out ministers... | |
 | Josiah J. Cleveland - Lost tribes of Israel - 1887 - 126 pages
...influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation on the earth." And again: " The Americans combine the notions of Christianity...barren, traditionary faith, which seems to vegetate rather than live in the soul. * * * Thus religious zeal is perpetually warmed in the United States... | |
 | Robert Wuthnow - History - 1988 - 392 pages
...concerning the essential harmony between freedom and religion in the United States still seems apt: "The Americans combine the notions of Christianity...impossible to make them conceive the one without the other."58 The question does need to be considered, however, of how these different ideas are combined.... | |
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The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other... 
