 | 1840 - 566 lapas
...to conform their actions to it, without knowing any thing about it. " I accost an American sailor : I inquire, why the ships of his country are built so as to last for a short time ? He answers, without hesitation, that the art of navigation is every day making such... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1862 - 526 lapas
...to conform their actions to it, without knowing anything about it. I accost an American sailor, and inquire why the ships of his country are built so...would become almost useless if it lasted beyond a few years. In these words, which fell accidentally, and on a particular subject, from an uninstructed... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1863 - 514 lapas
...to conform their actions to it, without knowing anything about it. I accost an American sailor, and inquire why the ships of his country are built so...would become almost useless if it lasted beyond a few years. In these w^ords, which fell accidentally, and on a particular subject, from an uniiistructed... | |
 | 1940 - 1240 lapas
...action and not of thought, seem to conform their actions to it, without knowing anything about it. I accost an American sailor, and I inquire why the ships of his country are [Footnote Continued from 123.] Mechanics are coming, make room, make room. Mechanics are coming, make... | |
 | Nathan Rosenberg - 1982 - 322 lapas
...considerable risk."* De Tocqueville long ago pointed out a distinctive characteristic of the American scene: "I accost an American sailor, and I inquire why the...that the art of navigation is every day making such a rapid progress that the finest vessel would become almost useless if it lasted beyond a certain number... | |
 | G. J. Whitrow - 1989 - 244 lapas
...knowing anything about it. I accost an American sailor and inquire why his ships are built to last for a short time; he answers without hesitation that the art of navigation is making such rapid progress that the finest vessel would become almost useless if it lasted beyond a... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Stephen D. Grant, Sanford Kessler - 2001 - 376 lapas
...his country are constructed in such a way that they do not last, and he answers me without hesitating that the art of navigation is every day making such rapid progress that the most beautiful boat would soon become almost useless if it lasted more than a few years. In these words... | |
 | David Carvounas - 2002 - 142 lapas
...guiding ethos of humanity. Tocqueville finds an example of this ethos when he asks an American sailor "why the ships of his country are built so as to last but for a short time." Without reflecting for a moment the sailor answers that the "art of navigation is every day making... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 868 lapas
...to conform their actions to it, without knowing anything about it. I accost an American sailor, and inquire why the ships of his country are built so...is every day making such rapid progress, that the fmest vessel would become almost useless if it lasted beyond a few years. In these words, which fell... | |
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I accost an American sailor, and inquire why the ships of his country are built so as to last but for a short time ; he answers without hesitation, that the art of navigation is every day making such rapid progress, that the finest vessel would become... 