 | James Fenimore Cooper, Bradley J. Birzer, John Willson - 2001 - 556 páginas
...their rulers, select the noble. This was the opinion of a European, who had been accustomed to see the liberal qualities in the exclusive possession of a...refined to a just participation of its influence. AN ARISTOCRAT AND A DEMOCRAT We live in an age, when the words aristocrat and democrat are much used,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1838 - 208 páginas
...their rulers, select the noble. This was the opinion of a European, who had been accustomed to see the liberal qualities in the exclusive possession of a...state. Power cannot be extended to a caste, without cast e's reaping its principal benefit ; but happy, indeed, is the nation, in which, power being the... | |
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... things that are false, and the things which make him what he is. An eminent writer of our own time, has said in substance, that a nation is happy, in which the people, possessing the power to select their rulers, select the noble. This was the opinion... 