States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America... American Institutions - Pàgina 356per Alexis de Tocqueville - 1870 - 559 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 714 pàgines
...religious, and consequently hypocrisy must b& common ; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence...conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth. I have remarked that the... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 500 pàgines
...there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater in. fluence over the souls of men than in America ; and there...conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth. I have remarked that the... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1840 - 504 pàgines
...religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence...men than in America ; and there can be no greater * Democracy in America, page 292. ^ Ib. p 295. t Ib. p. 289. § Ib. p. 286. proof of its utility, and... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1840 - 536 pàgines
...world no such report. His deliberate testimony is, " There is no country in the whole world, in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America ; and," he adds like a true philosopher, " there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity... | |
| 1840 - 534 pàgines
...world no such report. His deliberate testimony is, " There is no country in the whole world, in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America ; and," he adds like a true philosopher, " there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity... | |
| 1840 - 1078 pàgines
...world no such report. His deliberate testimony is, " There is no country in the whole world, in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America ; and," he adds like a true philosopher, " there can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformity... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 pàgines
...religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence...conformity to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth. I have remarked that the... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1850 - 256 pàgines
...regulating domestic life, it regulates the State. There is no country in the whole world, in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men, than in America." The indispensable necessity of Christianity as a conservative power, in view of our peculiar character... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 pàgines
...religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence...can be no greater proof of its utility, and of its conformic y to human nature, than that its influence is most powerfully felt over the most enlightened... | |
| John Howard Hinton - 1851 - 136 pàgines
...religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common ; but there is no country in the whole world in which the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America."* It is also inconsistent with the Captain's own admissions. How, for example, can this statement be... | |
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