America and EuropeD. Appleton, 1857 - 411 páginas |
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... Daily experience shows how unconquerable and deadly to man is the exu- berant vegetation of hot and tropical regions , how difficult in those regions to subject nature to the power , to the will , to the handling of man . Far more in ...
... Daily experience shows how unconquerable and deadly to man is the exu- berant vegetation of hot and tropical regions , how difficult in those regions to subject nature to the power , to the will , to the handling of man . Far more in ...
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... daily life . Books are at a price lower than the smallest alms . The whole Empire forms a leaf , covered with written sen- tences and axioms of their moralists . Schools accord- ingly existed there for the masses of the people at a pe ...
... daily life . Books are at a price lower than the smallest alms . The whole Empire forms a leaf , covered with written sen- tences and axioms of their moralists . Schools accord- ingly existed there for the masses of the people at a pe ...
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... daily pursuits and occupations , new and more intense men- tal and intellectual activity , the Americans became in a short time totally unlike the English in all external and internal characteristics . Even in the heart of New Eng- land ...
... daily pursuits and occupations , new and more intense men- tal and intellectual activity , the Americans became in a short time totally unlike the English in all external and internal characteristics . Even in the heart of New Eng- land ...
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... daily laborer , were equal , closely interwoven and connected with each other . A log cabin was their original abode , was the common cradle . The old and the new society are as two streams issuing from two wholly different sources ...
... daily laborer , were equal , closely interwoven and connected with each other . A log cabin was their original abode , was the common cradle . The old and the new society are as two streams issuing from two wholly different sources ...
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... daily enlarged in Europe , and are accessible without distinction . Not difference of birth , but poverty shuts any person out from using and being benefited by them . True it is that notwithstanding all this , the past with most of its ...
... daily enlarged in Europe , and are accessible without distinction . Not difference of birth , but poverty shuts any person out from using and being benefited by them . True it is that notwithstanding all this , the past with most of its ...
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absolute action activity Ameri American ancient Anglo-Saxon aristocracy Arrians artist asserted Athenian democracy become burgher class burghers cardinal centuries character Christian cial cities civilization classes Cloth colonies combination communities conceptions constitute continent culture degradation democracy democratic destinies distinct domestic elements England English epoch equal established Europe European nations evoked exclusively existence France freedom genuine German Greece habits Half calf human immense majority impulse inborn independent individual industry influence institutions intercourse Irish Italy labor laws legislative liberty manifest destiny manifestations masses material ment mental mind moral morocco nature oligarchies oppression organization origin passions population preserved prevails principle privileges progress prosperity pursuits race religious republics Roman Roman republic Rome Russia schools self-government serfdom slavery slaves social and political social equality society soil spirit superior tion tribes UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA various weregild whole wholly
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