 | 1838 - 536 páginas
...Some men fancy that a democrat can only be one who seeks the level, social, mental, and moral, of the majority, a rule that would at once exclude all men...himself occupies ; thus establishing the very claims he affects to deny, by letting his jealousy of it be seen. Manners, education, and refinement, are positive... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper, Bradley J. Birzer, John Willson - 2001 - 556 páginas
...from the class. These persons are enemies of democracy, as they at once render it impracticable.They are usually great sticklers for their own associations...himself occupies; thus establishing the very claims he affects to deny, by letting his jealousy of it be seen. Manners, education and refinement, are positive... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1838 - 208 páginas
...unable to comprehend any of a nature that are superior. They are, in truth, aristocrats in princjple, though assuming a contrary pretension ; the ground...himself occupies ; thus establishing the very claims he affects to deny, by letting his jealousy of it be seen. Manners, education and refinement, are positive... | |
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They are, in truth, aristocrats in principle, though assuming a contrary pretension ; the ground work of all their feelings and arguments being self. Such is not the intention of liberty, whose aim is to leave every man to be the master of his own acts... 