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 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1840 - 546 pages
...unmeasured greatness so indistinctly visible at the end of the long track which humanity has yet to tread. It can hardly be believed how many facts naturally...sailor, and I inquire why the ships of his country are built so as to last but for a short time ; he answers without hesitation that the art of navigation... | |
 | 1840 - 566 pages
...visible at the end of the long track which humanity has yet to tread. This idea he thus illustrates : " It can hardly be believed, how many facts naturally...seem to conform their actions to it, without knowing any thing about it. " I accost an American sailor : I inquire, why the ships of his country are built... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...unmeasured greatness so indistinctly visible at the end of the long track which humanity has yet to tread. It can hardly be believed how many facts naturally...sailor, and I inquire why the ships of his country are built so as to last but for a short time; he answers without hesitation that the art of navigation... | |
 | Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 pages
...the long track which humanity has yet to tread. It can hardly be believed how many facts natural! v flow from the philosophical theory of the indefinite...sailor, and I inquire why the ships of his country are built so as to last but for a short time ; he answers without hesitation that the art of navigation... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1862 - 526 pages
...unmeasured greatness so indistinctly visible at the end of the long track which humanity has yet to tread. It can hardly be believed how many facts naturally...man, or how strong an influence it exercises even on those who, living entirely for the purposes of action and not of thought, seem to conform their actions... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1863 - 526 pages
...unmeasured greatness so indistinctly visible at the end of the long track which humanity has yet to tread. It can hardly be believed how many facts naturally...man, or how strong an influence it exercises even on those who, living entirely for the purposes of action and not of thought, seem to conform their actions... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 452 pages
...unmeasured greatness so indistinctly visible at the end of the long track which humanity has yet to tread. It can hardly be believed how many facts naturally...sailor, and I inquire why the ships of his country are built so as to last but for a short time; he answers without hesitation that the art of navigation... | |
 | G. J. Whitrow - Chronology - 1989 - 244 pages
...democratic nations tend to suffer from the opposite tendency. It can scarcely be believed how many facts flow from the philosophical theory of the indefinite...anything about it. I accost an American sailor and inquire why his ships are built to last for a short time; he answers without hesitation that the art... | |
 | George Dekker - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 392 pages
...North Atlantic peoples. As for its practical importance for American social development, according to de Tocqueville, "It can hardly be believed how many...philosophical theory of the indefinite perfectibility of men or how strong an influence it exercises even on those who, living entirely for the purposes of... | |
 | Joyce Oldham Appleby - Knowledge, Sociology of - 1996 - 578 pages
...unmeasured greatness so indistinctly visible at the end of the long track which humanity has yet to tread. It can hardly be believed how many facts naturally...actions to it, without knowing anything about it. ... Influence of Democracy on the Feelings of the Americans Why Democratic Nations Show a More Ardent... | |
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