The World's Great Classics: Democracy in America, by A. de TocquevilleTimothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne Colonial Press, 1899 Library Committee: Timothy Dwight ... Richard Henry Stoddard, Arthur Richmond Marsh, A.B. [and others] ... Illustrated with nearly two hundred photogravures, etchings, colored plates and full page portraits of great authors. Clarence Cook, art editor. |
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... WITH NEARLY TWO- HVNDRED PHOTOGRAVVRES ETCH : INGS COLORED PLATES AND FVLL PAGE PORTRAITS OF GREAT AVTHORS CLARENCE COOK ART EDITOR .. • THE COLONIAL PRESS . NEW YORK MDCCCXCIX . P R ! THE PUELI TK ARY ASTOR LEN X AND TILLON.
... WITH NEARLY TWO- HVNDRED PHOTOGRAVVRES ETCH : INGS COLORED PLATES AND FVLL PAGE PORTRAITS OF GREAT AVTHORS CLARENCE COOK ART EDITOR .. • THE COLONIAL PRESS . NEW YORK MDCCCXCIX . P R ! THE PUELI TK ARY ASTOR LEN X AND TILLON.
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... art CHAPTER X Why the Americans are more addicted to practical than to theoreti- cal science 36 30 % 42 CHAPTER XI Of the spirit in which the Americans cultivate the arts . 50 CHAPTER XII Why the Americans raise some monuments so ...
... art CHAPTER X Why the Americans are more addicted to practical than to theoreti- cal science 36 30 % 42 CHAPTER XI Of the spirit in which the Americans cultivate the arts . 50 CHAPTER XII Why the Americans raise some monuments so ...
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... arts , which may be presented to them ; but for such as relate to commerce , they will not receive them without inquiry , or adopt them with- out reserve . The same thing applies to statesmen with regard to general ideas in politics ...
... arts , which may be presented to them ; but for such as relate to commerce , they will not receive them without inquiry , or adopt them with- out reserve . The same thing applies to statesmen with regard to general ideas in politics ...
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... art of navigation is every day making such rapid progress , that the finest vessel would become almost useless if it lasted beyond a certain number of years . In these words , which fell acci- dentally and on a particular subject from a ...
... art of navigation is every day making such rapid progress , that the finest vessel would become almost useless if it lasted beyond a certain number of years . In these words , which fell acci- dentally and on a particular subject from a ...
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... Art I T must be acknowledged that amongst few of the civilized nations of our time have the higher sciences made less ... arts , and only yields a reluctant sufferance to the pleasures of literature . The Americans are a very old and a ...
... Art I T must be acknowledged that amongst few of the civilized nations of our time have the higher sciences made less ... arts , and only yields a reluctant sufferance to the pleasures of literature . The Americans are a very old and a ...
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Términos y frases comunes
affairs ambition Ameri Americans Amongst aristocratic nations amongst democratic nations aristocratic ages arts asso associations authority become believe cause central power CHAPTER citizens civil conceive constantly constitution contrary dangerous demo democracy democratic ages democratic armies democratic communities democratic countries Descartes desires despotism easily England equality of conditions eral Europe exist feel former fortunes France freedom frequently habits honor human mind ideas independence individuals interest language laws lead less Louis XIV Madame de Sévigné mankind manners manufactures master means Middle Ages midst military morals multitude natural never non-commissioned officers object officers opinions passions peculiar perceive perpetually persons pleasures political principle of equality privileges profession ranks religion remain render revolution rules seek servants small number social condition society South Carolina spirit taste things tion treme truth United virtues wants wealth whilst whole
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Página 385 - No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due. Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more...
Página 377 - The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day.
Página 375 - All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
Página 383 - Vice-President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.
Página 382 - States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice-President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall choose from them by Ballot the Vice-President.]* The Congress may determine the Time of choosing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United...
Página 110 - Americans of all ages, all conditions, and all dispositions constantly form associations. They have not only commercial and manufacturing companies, in which all take part, but associations of a thousand other kinds, religious, moral, serious, futile, general or restricted, enormous or diminutive.
Página 388 - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Página 380 - No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation ; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal ; coin Money ; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts ; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
Página 376 - No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
Página 376 - When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers ; and shall have the sole power of impeachment. SECTION 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof for six years; and each senator shall have one vote.