Democracy in America, tr. by H. Reeve, Volumen1 |
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... affairs to theory , no political bodies in the United States have ever shown so warm an attachment to general ideas as the Constituent Assembly and the Convention in France . At no time has the Ame- rican people laid hold on ideas of ...
... affairs to theory , no political bodies in the United States have ever shown so warm an attachment to general ideas as the Constituent Assembly and the Convention in France . At no time has the Ame- rican people laid hold on ideas of ...
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... affairs , reluctantly endures the attempt to fix it to any given point . The fixity of external and secondary things can only afford a chance of duration when civil society is itself fixed ; under any other circumstances I hold it to be ...
... affairs , reluctantly endures the attempt to fix it to any given point . The fixity of external and secondary things can only afford a chance of duration when civil society is itself fixed ; under any other circumstances I hold it to be ...
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... affairs , not needlessly to run counter to the ideas which generally prevail , and the per- manent interests which exist in the mass of the people . For as public opinion grows to be more and more evidently the first and most ...
... affairs , not needlessly to run counter to the ideas which generally prevail , and the per- manent interests which exist in the mass of the people . For as public opinion grows to be more and more evidently the first and most ...
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... affairs . Although man has many points of resemblance with the brute creation , one characteristic is peculiar to himself , -he improves they are incapable of improvement . Mankind could not fail to discover this difference from its ...
... affairs . Although man has many points of resemblance with the brute creation , one characteristic is peculiar to himself , -he improves they are incapable of improvement . Mankind could not fail to discover this difference from its ...
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... affairs . In the ages in which active life is the condition of almost every one , men are therefore generally led to attach an ex- cessive value to the rapid bursts and superficial conceptions of the intellect ; and , on the other hand ...
... affairs . In the ages in which active life is the condition of almost every one , men are therefore generally led to attach an ex- cessive value to the rapid bursts and superficial conceptions of the intellect ; and , on the other hand ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 127 - Wherever at the head of some new undertaking you see the government in France, or a man of rank in England, in the United States you will be sure to find an association.
Página 126 - 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 76 - From the authors which rose in the time of Elizabeth, a/ speech might be formed adequate to all the purposes of use and elegance. If the language of theology were extracted from Hooker and the translation of the Bible ; the terms of natural knowledge from Bacon; the phrases of policy, war, and navigation from Raleigh; the dialect of poetry and fiction from Spenser and Sidney; and the diction of common life from Shakespeare, few ideas would be lost to mankind, for want of English words, in which they...
Página 379 - 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. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood ; but it seeks on the contrary to keep them in perpetual childhood : it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing.
Página 250 - In no country has such constant care been taken as in America to trace two clearly distinct lines of action for the two sexes, and to make them keep pace one with the other, but in two pathways which are always different. American women never manage the outward concerns of the family, or conduct a business, or take a part in political life...
Página 419 - Blackstone expresses himself more in detail, if not more energetically, than Delolme, in the following terms:— " The power and jurisdiction of Parliament, says Sir Edward Coke (4 Inst. 36), is so transcendent and absolute that it cannot be confined, either for causes or persons, within any bounds.
Página 128 - Among democratic nations, on the contrary, all the citizens are independent and feeble; they can do hardly anything by themselves, and none of them can oblige his fellow men to lend him their assistance. They all, therefore, become powerless if they do not learn voluntarily to help one another.
Página 68 - Style will frequently be fantastic, incorrect, overburdened, and loose — almost always vehement and bold. Authors will aim at rapidity of execution, more than at perfection of detail. Small productions will be more common than bulky books ; there will be more wit than erudition, more imagination than profundity ; and literary performances will bear marks of an untutored .and rude vigour of thought — frequently of great variety and singular fecundity.
Página 86 - Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be ; in this direction, their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure.
Página 384 - ... show themselves the friends of equality; and the only worthy means of showing themselves as such, is to be so: upon this depends the success of their holy enterprise. Thus the question is not how to reconstruct aristocratic society, but how to make liberty proceed out of that democratic state of society in which God has placed us.