There are at the present time, two great nations in the world which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans. Democracy in America - Pągina 437per Alexis de Tocqueville - 1899Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1836 - 878 pągines
...advance is as swift, as unceasing as that of the British race to the rocky helt of Western America. " There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend towards the same enH, although they started from different points : 1 allude to the Russians and the Americans. Both... | |
| David Urquhart - 1836 - 630 pągines
...advance is as swift, as unceasing, as that of the British race to the rocky belt <if Western America. There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, f which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points ; I allude to... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 714 pągines
...by a river. If this tendency to assimilation brings foreign nations closer to each other, it must a fortiori prevent the descendants of the same people...Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoticed ; and while the attention of mankind was di* This would be a population proportionate to that of Europe,... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 500 pągines
...and it is a fact new to the world, — a fact fraught with such portentous consequences as to baffla the efforts even of the imagination. There are, at...Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoticed ; and while the attention of mankind was di* This would be a population proportionate to that of Europe,... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1840 - 568 pągines
...race to the rocky belt of Western America. " There are, at the present time," says M. Tocqueville, " two great nations in the world, which seem to tend...unnoticed ; and whilst the attention of mankind was <lirected elsewhere, they have suddenly assumed a most prominent place amongst the nations ; and the... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1841 - 522 pągines
...by a river. If this tendency to assimilation brings foreign nations closer to each other, it must a fortiori prevent the descendants of the same people...two great nations in the world, which seem to tend toward the same end, although they started from different points ; I allude to the Russians and the... | |
| Sir Archibald Alison - 1845 - 408 pągines
...advance is as swift, as unceasing as that of the British race to the rocky belt of western America. " There are, at the present time, two great nations...although they started from different points: I allude to th£ Russians and the Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoticed: and whilst the attention of... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 pągines
...manners, and imbued with thg same opinions, propagated under * See Maltebrun, liv. 116, vol. vi., p. 92. the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is...two great nations in the world, which seem to tend toward the same end, although they started from different points ; I allude to the Russians and the... | |
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