 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1836 - 694 páginas
...preserving the privileges of freemen. To use the words of an eloquent foreigner, De Tocqueville, "They are to liberty what primary schools are to science. They bring it within the peopie's reach. They teach men to use it, and to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free... | |
 | Albany Fonblanque - 1837 - 402 páginas
...individual." Tocqueville concurs in this view of municipal institutions. He says — " Town-meetings are to liberty what primary " schools are to science...reach, they teach men how to use and " how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a " system of free government, but without the " spirit of municipal institutions... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1838 - 354 páginas
...Nevertheless local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science...reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions... | |
 | Nahum Capen - 1848 - 348 páginas
...assemblies of citizens," says De Tocqueville, " constitute the strength of free nations. Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science...they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it." The same author says, in another place, " In the American states power has been disseminated with admirable... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 páginas
...Nevertheless, local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science...reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 páginas
...Nevertheless, local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science...reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1854 - 492 páginas
...Nevertheless, local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Municipal institutions are to liberty what primary schools are to science...reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1899 - 514 páginas
...advantages. Nevertheless local assemblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science;...reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions... | |
 | 1866 - 360 páginas
...English mechanic learned the value of their united strength * " Town meetings," says De Tocqueville, " are to liberty what primary schools are to science....reach. They teach men how to use and how to enjoy. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1866 - 690 páginas
...provincial liberties.2 . . . Local assernblies of citizens constitute the strength of free nations. Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools...the people's reach ; they teach men how to use and enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government ; but, without the spirit of municipal... | |
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Town- meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions... 
