I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property. Democracy in America - Stran 45avtor: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839Celotni ogled - O knjigi
| Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 212 strani
...knows no country where the love of money has a stronger hold on men's affections, and where greater contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property. As a consequence of that craving insatiable desire for equality, which M. De Tocqueville calls a "... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 strani
...country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory...gives a very imperfect idea of what is taking place in tfie new states of the west and southwest. At the end of the last century a few bold adventurers began... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1899 - 514 strani
...country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where the profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of...of it. This picture, which may perhaps be thought to be overcharged, still gives a very imperfect idea of what is taking place in the new States of the... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1870 - 628 strani
...country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of hien, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory...of it. This picture, which may, perhaps, be thought to be overcharged, still gives a very imperfect idea of what is taking place in the new States of the... | |
| Allen Johnson - 1912 - 618 strani
...which he made in 1831. love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory...of it. This picture, which may, perhaps, be thought to be overcharged, still gives a very imperfect idea of what is taking place in the new States of the... | |
| Robert A. Dahl - 2008 - 272 strani
...marked at the present day . . . Even the germs of aristocracy were never planted in [New England] . . . But wealth circulates with inconceivable rapidity,...succeeding generations in the full enjoyment of it ... I do not believe that there is a country in the world where, in proportion to the population, there... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1980 - 402 strani
...country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory...succeeding generations in the full enjoyment of it. ... It is not only the fortunes of men which are equal in America; even their acquirements partake... | |
| E. Thomas Sullivan - 1991 - 345 strani
...Tocqueville was also struck by the general equality of condition. .. . As de Tocqueville observed, "[w]ealth circulates with inconceivable rapidity,...succeeding generations in the full enjoyment of it." As Americans around the turn of the nineteenth century revised their thinking about the conditions... | |
| Frederick C. Turner - 320 strani
...besides America "where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property" (1945,51). Parallel conclusions similar to Tocqueville 's about the social conditions for political... | |
| Wolfgang Sachs - 1992 - 324 strani
...country, indeed, where the love of money has taken a stronger hold on the affections of men and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of the permanent equality of property.8 On the contrary, the process of uprooting people from the soil, from the past, and from... | |
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