Democracy in America, tr. by H. Reeve, Volumen1 |
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... soon leads them to contemn forms , which they regard as useless and inconvenient veils placed between them and the truth . The Americans then have not required to extract their philosophical method from books ; they have found it in ...
... soon leads them to contemn forms , which they regard as useless and inconvenient veils placed between them and the truth . The Americans then have not required to extract their philosophical method from books ; they have found it in ...
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... soon lead it astray and bewilder its discernment : in this strait , man has recourse to an imperfect but necessary expedient , which at once assists and demonstrates his weak- ness . Having superficially considered a certain number of ...
... soon lead it astray and bewilder its discernment : in this strait , man has recourse to an imperfect but necessary expedient , which at once assists and demonstrates his weak- ness . Having superficially considered a certain number of ...
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... soon grew up in the bosom of these nations ; the different races were more sharply defined , and each nation was divided by castes into several peoples . In the midst of this common effort , which seemed to be urging human society to ...
... soon grew up in the bosom of these nations ; the different races were more sharply defined , and each nation was divided by castes into several peoples . In the midst of this common effort , which seemed to be urging human society to ...
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... soon find itself reduced to a band of fanatical zealots in the midst of an infidel people . I anticipate the objection , that as all religions have gene- ral and eternal truths for their object , they cannot thus shape themselves to the ...
... soon find itself reduced to a band of fanatical zealots in the midst of an infidel people . I anticipate the objection , that as all religions have gene- ral and eternal truths for their object , they cannot thus shape themselves to the ...
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... soon as they have any reli- gion , they immediately find in themselves a latent propen- sity which urges them unconsciously towards Catholicism . VOL . II . D Many of the doctrines and the practices of the Romish 33 Of the progress of ...
... soon as they have any reli- gion , they immediately find in themselves a latent propen- sity which urges them unconsciously towards Catholicism . VOL . II . D Many of the doctrines and the practices of the Romish 33 Of the progress of ...
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.