 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1838 - 534 pages
...examined America : my wish has been to find instruction by which we might ourselves profit." "I sought the image of democracy itself with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its pas• sions, in order to learn what we have to hope or fear from its progress." He thinks that the... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 500 pages
...examined America : my wish has been to find instruction by which we might ourselves profit." " I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations,...and its passions, in order to learn what we have to hope or fear from its progress." He thinks that the principle of democracy has sprung into new life... | |
 | 1841 - 668 pages
...wish has been to find instruction by which we might ourselves profit." And again : — " I sought'the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations,...and its passions, in order to learn what WE have to hope and fear from its progress." And having adverted to some of the causes which have been at work... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1841 - 522 pages
...America : my wish has been to find instruction, by which we might ourselves profit." — " I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations,...prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what tee have to hope or fear from its progress." He thinks that the principle of democracy has sprung into... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 pages
...America : my wish has been to find instruction, by which we might ourselves profit." — " I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations,...and its passions, in order to learn what we have to hope or fear from its progress." He thinks that the principle of democracy has sprung into new life... | |
 | European history - 1860 - 310 pages
...in PROGRESS OF DEMOCRACY. 1 81 the west the image of that democracy to which Europe is being borne, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices,...to learn what we have to fear or to hope from its progi ess. It is in connection with this purpose that he is led to speak of the Pilgrim fathers. All... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1898 - 990 pages
...form of government might remain different. He confessed that in America he saw more than America. He sought there the image of Democracy itself, with its...prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what the French have to fear or to hope from its progress. In view of these utterances, and of many more... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 646 pages
...out if possible the means of rendering it profitable to mankind. I confess that in America I saw mew than America: I sought there the image of democracy...character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to team nrh*t we h»ve to fear or to hope from its progress." It is this detachment from his subject that... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1898 - 640 pages
...form of government might remain different. He confessed that in America he saw more than America. He sought there the image of Democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, aud its passions, in order to learn what the French have to fear or to hope from its progress. In view... | |
 | John Bigelow, Alexis de Tocqueville - 1899 - 538 pages
...by which it may be rendered profitable. I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in_flrder_tpjearn what we have to fear or to hope from jts progressIn the first part of this work I... | |
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I confess that in America I saw more than America; I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions... 
