| Edwin Hubbell Chapin - 1848 - 244 páginas
...some respects one of extreme dependence, I have nowhere seen women occupying a loftier position ; and if I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people [the American] ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply — to the superiority of... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1851 - 266 páginas
...the Roman's success, was the comparatively high estimate of woman's character. Says De Tocqueville, " If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of the American people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply, to the superiority of their women."... | |
| Massachusetts Teachers Association - 1852 - 358 páginas
...the Roman's success, was the comparatively high .estimate of woman's character. Says De Tocqueville," If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of the American people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply, to the superiority of their women."... | |
| Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood - 1881 - 152 páginas
...society will be high and pure. De Tocqueville said many years ago, in his book " Democracy in America," " If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of the Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply, To the superiority of their women." This is... | |
| Henry George - 1905 - 446 páginas
...fact that adultery was a crime punishable with death in colonial Connecticut and Massachusetts, he said: "If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength" of the people of the United States "ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply : To the superiority of... | |
| Kate Stephens - 1905 - 352 páginas
...ask her if every one else is as good as she. You recall what de Tocqueville wrote eighty years ago: "If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that [American] people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply — to the superiority of their... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1907 - 428 páginas
...sums up his deliberations by saying : " I have nowhere seen women occupying a loftier position ; and if I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply — to the superiority of their women." The... | |
| 1908 - 392 páginas
...sums up his deliberations by saying: "I have nowhere seen women occupying a loftier position ; and if I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength 25 of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply — to the superiority of their women."... | |
| Henry Addington Bruce - 1912 - 302 páginas
...more reminding my readers of what that wise Frenchman, Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote many years ago : " If I were asked to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of the American people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply — to the superiority of their women."... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1913 - 554 páginas
...sums up his deliberations by saying: "I have nowhere seen women occupying a loftier position ; and if I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply — to the superiority of their women." The... | |
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