 It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great ; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men ; that they would set less value on the work, and more upon the workman ; that they would never...  The Edinburgh Review - Pagina 371841Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1840 - 676 pagina’s
...time sought only to use men in order to make things great ; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men ; that they would set less value...form or combination of social polity has yet been de343 vised, to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens.... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1841 - 418 pagina’s
...time sought only to use men in order to make things great ; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men ; that they would set less value...to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens. I trace among our contemporaries two contrary notions which are... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 pagina’s
...time sought only to use men in order to make things great ; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men ; that they would set less value...to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens. I trace among our contemporaries two contrary notions which are... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 576 pagina’s
...: I wish that they would try a little more to make great men ; that they would set less value upon the work, and more upon the workman ; that they would...of citizens personally feeble and pusillanimous.' — (vol. iv. part iv. chap. 7.) If we were here to close this article, and leave these noble speculations... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 576 pagina’s
...things: I wish that they would try a little more to make great men ; that they would set less value upon the work, and more upon the workman ; that they would...of citizens personally feeble and pusillanimous.' — (vol. iv. part iv. chap. 7.) If we were here to close this article, and leave these noble speculations... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1862 - 526 pagina’s
...time sought only to use men in order to make things great ; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men ; that they would set less value...to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens. I trace amongst our contemporaries two contrary notions which... | |
 | Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 pagina’s
...time sought only to use men in order to make things great ; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men ; that they would set less value...to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens. I trace amongst our contemporaries two contrary notions which... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 174 pagina’s
...more to make great men ; that they would set less value upon the work, and more upon the workmen ; ' that they would never forget, that a nation cannot...of citizens personally feeble and pusillanimous." — Vol. iv. part iv. chap. 7. If we were here to close this article, and leave these noble speculations... | |
 | Henry Codman Potter - 1890 - 32 pagina’s
...great; I wish they would try a little more to make great men ; that they would set less value upon the work and more upon the workman; that they would...to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens."* And yet one would think that no system had ever * Democracy... | |
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