... one race, owing their origin to the same cause, and preserving the same civilization, the same language, the same religion, the same habits, the same manners, and imbued with the same opinions, propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain,... Miscellaneous Essays: By Archibald Alison - Seite 363von Sir Archibald Alison - 1845 - 390 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1835 - 642 Seiten
...and prosperity. " The rest ia uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world—a fact fraught with such portentous consequences as to baffle the efforts even of the imagination." "There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend towards the same... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 714 Seiten
...propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world, — a fact fraught with such portentous consequences...as to baffle the efforts even of the imagination. There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend towards the same... | |
| Archibald Alison - 1840 - 560 Seiten
...propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world, a fact fraught with such portentous consequences...as to baffle the efforts even of the imagination."* As the democratic passion, however, is thus evidently the great moving power which is transferring... | |
| 1841 - 604 Seiten
...propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain ; but this is certain, and it is a fact new to the world, a fact fraught with such portentous consequences as to baffle the efforts of the imagination." together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gins of nature,... | |
| John Harris - 1842 - 504 Seiten
...extent ; with a population of a hundred and fifty millions of men. . . . This is a fact new to the world, a fact fraught with such portentous consequences...as to baffle the efforts even of the imagination." But it is not merely one quarter of the world of which the British race have taken possession. Southern... | |
| sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 Seiten
...propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain; and it is a fact new to the world, a fact fraught with such portentous consequences...great moving power which thus impels multitudes of civilised beings into the wilderness of nature. Nothing but that principle could effect such a change.... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 Seiten
...vi., p. 92. the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world— a fact fraught with such portentous consequences...as to baffle the efforts even of the imagination. There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend toward the same... | |
| Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1851 - 376 Seiten
...propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world, a fact fraught with such portentous consequences...as to baffle the efforts even of the imagination." Let us turn from the French statesman writing in 1835, to an English statesman who is justly regarded... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 Seiten
...propagated under the same forms. The rest is uncertain, but this is certain ; and it is a fact new to the world — a fact fraught with such portentous consequences...as to baffle the efforts even of the imagination. There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend toward the same... | |
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