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" In the confusion of all ranks every one hopes to appear what he is not, and makes great exertions to succeed in this object. This sentiment indeed, which is but too natural to the heart of man, does not originate in the democratic principle; but that... "
Bentley's Miscellany - Page 304
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The British and Foreign Review: Or, European Quarterly Journal ..., Volume 10

1840 - 974 pages
...commodities attractive qualities which they do not in reality possess. In the confusion of all ranks every one hopes to appear what he is not, and makes...but that principle applies it to material objects. To mimic virtue is of every age ; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages...
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Democracy in America, Volume 3

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1840 - 546 pages
...commodities attractive qualities which they do not in reality possess. In the confusion of all ranks every one hopes to appear what he is not, and makes great exertions to succeed in this object. H 2 99 This sentiment indeed, which is but too natural to the heart of man, does not originate in the...
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Democracy in America, Volume 2

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1841 - 418 pages
...commodities attractive qualities which they do not in reality possess. In the confusion of all ranks every one hopes to appear what he is not, and makes...but that principle applies it to material objects. To mimic virtue is of every age; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages...
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Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1848 - 916 pages
...they do not in reality possess. In the confusion of all ranks every one hopps tn apppar what hq jg not, and makes great exertions to succeed in this...democratic principle ; but that principle applies it to tnatadal objects. To mimic virtue is of every age; but the hypocrisyjaf luxury- belongs more partirajilarJy_toJbe^a^g^w...
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Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1848 - 922 pages
...hopes to appear what he is not, and ma great exertions to succeed in this object. This sentiment indi which is but too natural to the heart of man, does not originati the democratic principle ; but that principle applies it to mate objects. To mimic virtue...
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The Republic of the United States of America: And Its Political Institutions ...

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1851 - 954 pages
...commodities attractive qualities which they do not in reality possess. In the confusion of all ranks every one hopes to appear what he is not, and makes...which is but too natural to the heart of man, does not origmate in the democratic principle ; but that principle applies it to material objects. To mimic...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 33

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...a great number of middling works than a few of the highest merit. " In the confusion of ranks," be says, "every one hopes to appear what he is not, and makes great exertions to succeed in 1854.] |Nov., this object. This sentiment, indeed, which is but too natural to the heart of man, does...
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Democracy in America, tr. by H. Reeve, Volume 1

Alexis Henri C.M. Clérel comte de Tocqueville - 1862 - 456 pages
...commodities attractive qualities which they do not in reality possess. In the confusion of all ranks every one hopes to appear what he is not, and makes...but that principle applies it to material objects. To mimic virtue is of every age ; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages...
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Democracy in America, Volume 2

Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1862 - 526 pages
...commodities attractive qualities which they do not in reality possess. In the confusion of ah' ranks, every one hopes to appear what he is not, and makes...but that principle applies it to material objects. The hypocrisy of virtue is of every age, but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the...
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The World's Great Classics: Democracy in America, by A. de Tocqueville

Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - Literature - 1899 - 454 pages
...commodities attractive qualities which they do not in reality possess. In the confusion of all ranks everyone hopes to appear what he is not, and makes great exertions...but that principle applies it to material objects. To mimic virtue is of every age ; but the hypocrisy of luxury belongs more particularly to the ages...
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