Democracy in America, Volumen4Saunders and Otley, 1840 |
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... brings them together , they are ready to converse without hoping or fearing to lose their own position . Their inter- course is not upon a footing of equality , but it is not constrained . When monied aristocracy succeeds to aristo ...
... brings them together , they are ready to converse without hoping or fearing to lose their own position . Their inter- course is not upon a footing of equality , but it is not constrained . When monied aristocracy succeeds to aristo ...
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... brings them together , they are ready to converse without hoping or fearing to lose their own position . Their inter- course is not upon a footing of equality , but it is not constrained . When monied aristocracy succeeds to aristo ...
... brings them together , they are ready to converse without hoping or fearing to lose their own position . Their inter- course is not upon a footing of equality , but it is not constrained . When monied aristocracy succeeds to aristo ...
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... brings them together , they are ready to converse without hoping or fearing to lose their own position . Their inter- course is not upon a footing of equality , but it is not constrained . When monied aristocracy succeeds to aristo ...
... brings them together , they are ready to converse without hoping or fearing to lose their own position . Their inter- course is not upon a footing of equality , but it is not constrained . When monied aristocracy succeeds to aristo ...
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... bring citizens of all ranks into contact , and compel them to pursue great undertakings in concert . People thus engaged have scarcely time to attend to the details of etiquette , and they are besides too strongly interested in living ...
... bring citizens of all ranks into contact , and compel them to pursue great undertakings in concert . People thus engaged have scarcely time to attend to the details of etiquette , and they are besides too strongly interested in living ...
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... bringing some new instance of his wealth before you every day . His house will be in the most fashionable part of the town : he will always be surrounded by a host of servants . I have heard an American complain , that in the best ...
... bringing some new instance of his wealth before you every day . His house will be in the most fashionable part of the town : he will always be surrounded by a host of servants . I have heard an American complain , that in the best ...
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alike ambition Americans amidst Amongst aristocratic nations amongst democratic nations appears aristo become cause central power CHAPTER citizens civil classes conceive constantly contrary cracy cratic danger demo democracies democratic ages democratic armies democratic communities democratic countries desires despotism ditions dread easily EDWARD LYTTON engendered equality of conditions Europe exist fear feel feudal freedom frequently habits hands heart Hence honour human importance increase independence individual institutions interests laws less live Madame de Sévigné mankind manners marriage master ment military mind mocratic morals munity natural never non-commissioned officers obedience object officers passions peace peculiar political principle of equality private persons privileges propensities proportion ranks remain render revolution rules seek servants small number social condition society soldiers sovereign spect spirit supreme power surprizing taste things tical tions tremely tural United vate virtue volution wants wealth whilst woman women
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Página 235 - ... provides for their security, foresees and supplies their necessities, facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns, directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?
Página 234 - The first thing that strikes the observation is an innumerable multitude of men, all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives. Each of them, living apart, is as a stranger to the fate of all the rest; his children and his private friends constitute to him the whole of mankind. As for the rest of his fellow citizens, he is close to them, but he does not see them; he touches them, but he does not feel them; he exists only in...
Página 209 - Such persons may be ready to admit, as a general principle, that the public authority ought not to interfere in private concerns; but, by an exception to that rule, each of them craves...
Página 209 - When all conditions are unequal, no inequality is so great as to offend the eye; whereas the slightest dissimilarity is odious in the midst of general uniformity: the more complete this uniformity is, the more insupportable does the sight of such a difference become.
Página 202 - The Americans hold, that in every state the supreme power ought to emanate from the people; but when once that power is constituted, they can conceive, as it were, no limits to it, and they are ready to admit that it has the right to do whatever it pleases.
Página 234 - Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate.
Página 235 - ... shattered, but softened, bent, and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting; such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
Página 231 - ... it would be more extensive and more mild; it would degrade men without tormenting them. I do not question, that in an age of instruction and equality like our own, sovereigns might more easily succeed in collecting all political power into their own hands, and might interfere more habitually and decidedly within the circle of private interests, than any sovereign of antiquity could ever do.
Página 71 - I have been frequently surprised, and almost frightened, at the singular address and happy boldness with which young women in America contrive to manage their thoughts and their language, amidst all the difficulties of free conversation...
Página 235 - It covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules, minute and uniform, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters can not penetrate, to rise above the crowd. The will of man is not shattered, but softened, bent, and guided...