The party system. Public opinion. Illustrations and reflections. Social institutions

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Stran 729 - no man thinks for himself, or, if he does, fears to express what he thinks. A drear pall of monotony covers the sky. " Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall And universal darkness buries all." This doctrine seems to date from the appearance of Tocqueville's book, though his professed disciples have
Stran 130 - Marcy's speech was a defence of the system of partisan removals and short terms from the example of his own State. " They [the New York politicians] when contending for victory avow the intention of enjoying the fruits of it. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
Stran 638 - In 1636 the General Court of the colony of Massachusetts Bay agreed " to give Four Hundred Pounds towards a. school or college, whereof Two Hundred Pounds shall be paid the next year, and Two Hundred Pounds when the work is finished, and the next Court to appoint where aud what building.
Stran 668 - Four States provide that this declaration is not to be taken to excuse breaches of the public peace, many that it shall not excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify practices inconsistent with the peace and safety of the State, and three that no person shall disturb others in
Stran 838 - in connection with its youth without a presentiment that here shall laws and institutions exist on some scale of proportion to the majesty of nature. To men legislating for the area between the two oceans, betwixt the snows and the tropics, somewhat of the gravity of nature will infuse itself into the code.
Stran 24 - and the elements that formed it be regrouped in some new organism : "The times have been That when the brains were out the man would die.
Stran 339 - Je ne connais pas de pays où il règne, en général, moins d'indépendance d'esprit et de véritable liberté de discussion qu'en Amérique. La majorité trace un cercle formidable autour de la pensée. Au dedans de ces limites, l'écrivain est libre, mais malheur a lui s'il ose en sortir
Stran 823 - some six or seven of the greatest, will be more widely spread; wages will probably sink and work be less abundant. In fact the chronic evils and problems of old societies and crowded countries, such as we see them to-day in Europe, will have reappeared on this new soil.
Stran 795 - than the American from any part of the country is to the American from any other. Differences of course there are between the human type as developed in different regions of the country, — differences moral and intellectual as well as physical. You can generally tell a Southerner by his look as well as by his speech,
Stran 795 - of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, one discovers more varieties between individuals in these European peoples than one finds in America. Scotchmen and Irishmen are more unlike Englishmen,' the native of Normandy more unlike the native of Provence, the Pomeranian more unlike the Wurtemberger, the Piedmontese more unlike the Neapolitan, the Basque more unlike the

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