 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1838 - 534 pages
...scarcely feels his own calamitous situation. Vio'lence made him a slave, and the habit of servitude gives him the thoughts and desires of a slave ; he admires...the servile imitation of those who oppress him : his understanding is degraded to the level of his soul. The Negro enters upon slavery as soon as he is... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 500 pages
...scarcely feels his own calamitous situation. Violence made him a slave, and the habit of servitude gives him the thoughts and desires of a slave ; he admires his tyrants more than be hates them, and finds his joy and his pride in the servile imitation. of those who oppress him :... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1850 - 488 pages
...scarcely feels his own calamitous situation. Violence made him a slave, and the habit of servitude g'ves him the thoughts and desires of a slave ; he admires...the servile imitation of those who oppress him : his understanding is degraded to the level of his soul. The negro enters upon slavery as soon as he is... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...scarcely feels his own calamitous situation. Violence made him a slave, and the habit of servitude gives him the thoughts and desires of a slave ; he admires...the servile imitation of those who oppress him : his understanding is degraded to the level of his soul. The negro enters upon slavery as soon as he is... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1854 - 492 pages
...scarcely feels his own calamitous situation. Violence made him a slave, and the habit of servitude gives him the thoughts and desires of a slave ; he admires...the servile imitation of those who oppress him : his understanding is degraded to the level of his soul. The negro enters upon slavery as soon as he is... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1899 - 514 pages
...scarcely feels his own calamitous situation. Violence made him a slave, and the habit of servitude gives him the thoughts and desires of a slave ; he admires...the servile imitation of those who oppress him : his understanding is degraded to the level of his soul. The negro enters upon slavery as soon as he is... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Constitutional history - 1870 - 628 pages
...scarcely feels his own calamitous situation. Violence made him a slave, and the habit of servitude gives him the thoughts and desires of a slave ; he admires...the servile imitation of those who oppress him. His understanding is degraded to the level of his soul. The Negro enters upon slavery as soon as he is... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1875 - 508 pages
...scarcely feels his own calamitous situation. Violence made him a slave, and the habit of servitude gives him the thoughts and desires of a slave ; he admires his tyrants more than he hates them, and fmds his joy and his pride in the servile imitation of those who oppress him : his understanding is... | |
 | Emory Stephen Bogardus - Americanization - 1920 - 384 pages
...scarcely feels his own calamitous situation. Violence made him' a slave, and the habit of servitude gives him the thoughts and desires of a slave; he admires his tyrants more than he hates them. . . . He conforms to the tastes of his oppressors, adopts their opinions, and hopes by imitating them... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Stephen D. Grant, Sanford Kessler - Political Science - 2001 - 376 pages
...of servitude has given him [333l the thoughts and ambition of a slave; he admires his tyrants even more than he hates them and finds his joy and his...the servile imitation of those who oppress him. His intelligence is degraded to the level of his soul. The Negro enters into servitude and enters into... | |
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Violence made him a slave, and the habit of servitude gives him the thoughts and desires of a slave; he admires his tyrants more than he hates them, and finds his joy and his pride in the servile imitation of those who oppress him: his understanding is... 
