As Others See Us: A Study of Progress in the United StatesMacmillan, 1908 - 364 strani |
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Stran 158 - The more I advanced in the study of American society, the more I perceived that the equality of conditions is the fundamental fact from which all others seem to be derived, and the central point at which all my observations constantly terminated.
Stran 79 - In no country in the world has the principle of association been more successfully used or applied to a greater multitude of objects than in America.
Stran 97 - I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.
Stran 25 - His stature is noble and lofty, he is well made, and exactly proportioned ; his physiognomy mild and agreeable, but such as to render it impossible to speak particularly of any of his features, so that in quitting him, you have only the recollection of a fine face.
Stran 15 - A democracy is scarcely tolerable at any period of national history. Its omens are always sinister, and its powers are unpropitious. With all the lights of experience blazing before our eyes, it is impossible not to discern the futility of this form of government.
Stran 19 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful 'for anything we allow them short of hanging.
Stran 160 - Whoever has inhabited the United States must have perceived that in those parts of the Union in which the Negroes are no longer slaves they have in no wise drawn nearer to the whites. On the contrary, the prejudice of race appears to be stronger in the states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists; and nowhere is it so intolerant as in those states where servitude has never been known.
Stran 238 - In all, the same shops, arranged on the same plan, the same Chinese laundries, with Li Kow visible through the window...
Stran 114 - ... could not well have been expected to begin differently. What you see are beginnings, they are crude, they are too predominantly material, they omit much, leave much to be desired — but they could not have been otherwise, they have been inevitable, and we will rise above them " ; if the Americans frankly said this, one would have not a word to bring against it.
Stran 28 - I found the institutions and experience of the United States deliberately quoted in the reformed Parliament, as affording safe precedent for British legislation, and learned that the drivellers who uttered such nonsense, instead of encountering merited derision, were listened to with patience and approbation, by men as ignorant as themselves, I certainly did feel that another work on America was yet wanted, and at once determined to undertake a task which inferior considerations would probably have...