 ... 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,...  Democracy in America - Pàgina 345per Alexis de Tocqueville - 1848 - 875 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1862 - 526 pàgines
...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...rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness ; it provides for... | |
 | George Alfred Townsend - 1869 - 702 pàgines
...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...rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness ; it provides for... | |
 | George Alfred Townsend - 1870 - 702 pàgines
...like the authoritjr 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...rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness ; it provides for... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 452 pàgines
...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...rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness: it provides for... | |
 | 1918 - 1048 pàgines
...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. . . . For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and... | |
 | Peter J. Steinberger - 1985 - 190 pàgines
...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...rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness. ... It covers the... | |
 | Robert A. Dahl - 1985 - 196 pàgines
...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 people should rejoice, provided they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such a government... | |
 | Michael Novak - 1984 - 316 pàgines
...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...rejoicing. For their happiness such a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for... | |
 | Werner Maihofer, Gerhard Sprenger - 1990 - 278 pàgines
...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. . . . Thus it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent;... | |
 | Jeffrey C. Goldfarb - 1991 - 212 pàgines
...like the authority of a parent if, like that authority, its object was to prepare man for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood: it is Chapter Three well content that the people rejoice provided that they think of nothing but rejoicing.... | |
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