 | England - 1836 - 878 pages
...the world, which seem to tend towards the same enH, although they started from different points : 1 allude to the Russians and the Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoiicrd : and whilst the attention of mankind was directed elsewhere, they have suddenly assumed... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1839 - 714 pages
...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...Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoticed ; and while the attention of mankind was di* This would be a population proportionate to that of Europe,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Poor - 1840 - 568 pages
...race to the rocky belt of Western America. " There are, at the present time," says M. Tocqueville, " two great nations in the world, which seem to tend...unnoticed ; and whilst the attention of mankind was <lirected elsewhere, they have suddenly assumed a most prominent place amongst the nations ; and the... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 746 pages
...marvellous coincidence in the tendency of the progress of the two greatest nations now on the earth. " There are, at the present time, two great nations...Russians and the Americans. Both of them have grown np unnoticed ; and whilst the attention of mankind was directed elsewhere, they have suddenly assumed... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1850 - 488 pages
...imagination. There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend toward the same end, although they started from different...Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoticed ; and while the attention of mankind was directed elsewhere, they have suddenly assumed a most prominent... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...the world, which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points,—I allude to the Russians and the Americans. Both of them have grown np unnoticed; and whilst the attention of mankind was directed elsewhere, they have suddenly assumed... | |
 | James McFarlane Mathews - Bible - 1851 - 286 pages
...how well he understood the position and character of the two countries. " There are," he remarks, " at the present time, two great nations in the world,...from different points i allude to the Russians and Americans. Both of them have yiown up unnoticed: and whilst the attention of mankind was directed -elsewhere,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...imagination. There are, at the present time, two great nations in the world, which seem to tend toward the same end, although they started from different...Americans. Both of them have grown up unnoticed ; and while the attention of mankind was directed elsewhere, they have suddenly assumed a most prominent... | |
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There are at the present time, two great nations in the world which seem to tend towards the same end, although they started from different points; I allude to the Russians and the Americans. 
