Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859 |
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Though we set about this in the beginning , as we thought , of a long war , we
have not allowed the peace to interrupt it . We are devoting to it sixty - five
millions a year ( 2 , 600 , 000l . ) of which from fifteen to seventeen millions are
employed ...
Though we set about this in the beginning , as we thought , of a long war , we
have not allowed the peace to interrupt it . We are devoting to it sixty - five
millions a year ( 2 , 600 , 000l . ) of which from fifteen to seventeen millions are
employed ...
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Everybody who asks for anything gets it , everybody is allowed to waste ,
everybody is allowed to rob , every folly of the Empress is complied with . Fould
raised objections , and was dismissed . ' She is said to have a room full of
revolutionary ...
Everybody who asks for anything gets it , everybody is allowed to waste ,
everybody is allowed to rob , every folly of the Empress is complied with . Fould
raised objections , and was dismissed . ' She is said to have a room full of
revolutionary ...
Сторінка 246
Are prisoners in England , ' asked Beaumont , ' allowed to correspond with their
friends ? ' ' I believe , ' I answered , that their letters pass through the Governor ' s
hands , and that he opens them , or not , at his discretion . ' * Among the tortures ...
Are prisoners in England , ' asked Beaumont , ' allowed to correspond with their
friends ? ' ' I believe , ' I answered , that their letters pass through the Governor ' s
hands , and that he opens them , or not , at his discretion . ' * Among the tortures ...
Сторінка 248
She asked to be allowed to leave it for a time for better medical treatment and
change of air . It was granted only on the condition that she should never return .
She refused . The rheumatic attacks which the state of the prison had produced ...
She asked to be allowed to leave it for a time for better medical treatment and
change of air . It was granted only on the condition that she should never return .
She refused . The rheumatic attacks which the state of the prison had produced ...
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I agree with you that the fault of the Constitution was that it allowed the President
to be chosen by universal suffrage ; and that the fault of the people was that they
elected a pretender to the throne , whose ambition , rashness , and faithlessness
...
I agree with you that the fault of the Constitution was that it allowed the President
to be chosen by universal suffrage ; and that the fault of the people was that they
elected a pretender to the throne , whose ambition , rashness , and faithlessness
...
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