The Republic of the United States of America: And Its Political Institutions, Reviewed and ExaminedA.S. Barnes & Company, 1855 - 875 Seiten |
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... 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 throughout Europe , and particularly in France , and that it is advancing with a firm and ...
... 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 throughout Europe , and particularly in France , and that it is advancing with a firm and ...
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... passions of the human heart , co - operated to enrich the poor and to empoverish the rich . From the time when the exercise of the intellect became the source of strength and of wealth , it is impossible not to consider every addition ...
... passions of the human heart , co - operated to enrich the poor and to empoverish the rich . From the time when the exercise of the intellect became the source of strength and of wealth , it is impossible not to consider every addition ...
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... passions , which will rule his life . The entire man is , so to speak , to be seen in the cradle of the child . The growth of nations presents something analogous to this ; they all bear some marks of their origin ; and the ...
... passions , which will rule his life . The entire man is , so to speak , to be seen in the cradle of the child . The growth of nations presents something analogous to this ; they all bear some marks of their origin ; and the ...
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... passions which had been warmed by persecution , and were still fermenting among the people , a body of political laws is to be found , which , though written two hundred years ago , is still ahead of the liberties of our age . The ...
... passions which had been warmed by persecution , and were still fermenting among the people , a body of political laws is to be found , which , though written two hundred years ago , is still ahead of the liberties of our age . The ...
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... passions , rights , and duties , collected and clung . It gave scope to the activity of a real political life , most thoroughly democratic and republican . The colonies still recognised the supremacy of the mother - country ; monarchy ...
... passions , rights , and duties , collected and clung . It gave scope to the activity of a real political life , most thoroughly democratic and republican . The colonies still recognised the supremacy of the mother - country ; monarchy ...
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Seite 250 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Seite 250 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice...
Seite 35 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony ; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Seite 251 - I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
Seite 291 - In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the stronger individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves...
Seite 251 - The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
Seite 55 - America, then, exhibits in her social state a most extraordinary phenomenon. Men are there seen on a greater equality in point of fortune and intellect, or in other words, more equal in their strength, than in any other country of the world, or, in any age of which history has preserved the remembrance.
Seite 34 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.
Seite 387 - ... this being the place where that absolute despotic power which must, in all governments, reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms. All mischiefs and grievances, operations and remedies, that transcend the ordinary course of the laws, are within the reach of this extraordinary tribunal.
Seite 467 - The American struggles against the obstacles that nature opposes to him; the adversaries of the Russian are men. The former combats the wilderness and savage life; the latter civilization with all its arms.