 These very Americans, who have not discovered one of the general laws of mechanics, have introduced into navigation an engine which changes the aspect of the world.  Democracy in America - 53. lappuseautors: Alexis de Tocqueville - 1863Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | 1840 - 566 lapas
...discoveries which cannot be directly applied. Yet these very Americans, who have not discovered one of tne general laws of mechanics, have introduced into navigation an engine which changes the aspect of the world — They have joined the Hudson to the Mississippi, and made the Atlantic Ocean communicate with the... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks, Caleb Sprague Henry, Joseph Green Cogswell - 1840 - 570 lapas
...which cannot be directly applied. Yet these very Americans, who have not discovered one of the genera] laws of mechanics, have introduced into navigation an engine which changes the aspect of the world — They have joined the Hudson to the Mississippi, and made the Atlantic Ocean communicate with the... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 lapas
...middle zone. There it may develop all its energy and restless activity, there it may engender all its wonders. These very Americans, who have not discovered...of the general laws of mechanics, have introduced mto navigation an engine which changes the aspect of the world. Assuredly I do not contend that the... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1855 - 922 lapas
...These very Americans, who have not discovered one of the general laws of mechanics, have introduced mto navigation an engine which changes the aspect of the...time are destined to witness the extinction of the transcendent luminaries of man's intelligence, nor even that no new lights will ever start into existence.... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1862 - 526 lapas
...scientific pursuits, — that it understands and respects them. In aristocratic ages, science is moi'e particularly called upon to furnish gratification...into existence. At the age at which the world has now arrived, and amongst so many cultivated nations perpetually excited by the fever of productive industry,... | |
 | Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 lapas
...middle zone. There it may develop nil its energy and restless activity, there it may engender all its wonders. These very Americans, who have not discovered...time are destined to witness the extinction of the transcendent luminaries of man's intelligence, nor even that no new lights will ever start into existence.... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1864 - 528 lapas
...pleasures, to carve out splendid objects for his ambition. Aristocracies often commit very tvrannical and inhuman actions, but they rarely entertain grovelling...into existence. At the age at which the world has now arrived, and amongst so many cultivated nations perpetually excited by the fever of productive industry,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 452 lapas
...middle zone. There it may develop all its energy and restless activity, there it may engender all its wonders. These very Americans, who have not discovered...time are destined to witness the extinction of the transcendent luminaries of man's intelligence, nor even that no new lights will ever start into existence.... | |
 | 1841 - 662 lapas
...the mind are brought to bear on practical results. " These very Americans," says de Tocqueville, " who have not discovered one of the general laws of...an engine which changes the aspect of the world." It is also this everlasting struggle for something higher and better, resulting from a feeling that... | |
 | Charles Austin Beard, Mary Ritter Beard - 1927 - 840 lapas
...profoundest of tfie Europeans who have surveyed the American scene, remarked of the Jacksonian era : "These very Americans who have not discovered one...mechanics have introduced into navigation an engine that changes the aspect of the world. ... If the democratic principle does not on the one hand induce... | |
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