 | 1840 - 544 oldal
...with the completest winning of democracy is nothing won, except emptiness and the free chance to win. Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling...business, and gives in the long run a net result of zero." " Democracy never yet, that we heard of, was able to accomplish much work beyond that same cancelling... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1840 - 128 oldal
...completest winning of democracy there is nothing yet won,— except emptiness, and the free chance to win ! Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business ; and gives in the long-run a net-result of zero. Where no government is wanted, save that of the parish-constable, as... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1848 - 654 oldal
...completcst winning of democracy there is nothing yet won,—except emptiness, and the free chance to win ! Democracy is by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long-run a netresult of zero. Where no government is wanted, save that of the parish-constable, as... | |
 | 1840 - 624 oldal
...with the completest winning of democracy is nothing won, except emptiness and the free chance to win. Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling...business, and gives in the long run a net result of zero." " Democracy never yet, that we heard of, was able to accomplish much work beyond that same cancelling... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1860 - 384 oldal
...completest winning of democracy there is nothing yet won, — except emptiness, and the free chance to win ! Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business ; and gives in the long-run a net-result of zero. Where no government is wanted, save that of the parish constable, as... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1869 - 458 oldal
...completest winning of democracy there is nothing yet won, — except emptiness, and the free chance to win ! Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business ; and gives in the long-run a net result of zero. Where no government is wanted, save that of the parish-constable, as... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 oldal
...worthy to be trusted with such absolute power over his fellows as God exercises on a universal scale! " Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling...: and gives in the long run a net result of zero. Where no government is wanted, save that of the parishconstable, as in America with its boundless soil,... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 oldal
...worthy to be trusted with such absolute power over his fellows as God exercises on a universal scale ! " Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling...: and gives in the long run a net result of zero. Where no government is wanted, save that of the parishconstable, as in America with its boundless soil,... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 oldal
...worthy to be trusted with such absolute power over his fellows as God exercises on a universal scale! "Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling...: and gives in the long run a net result of zero. Where no government is wanted, save that of the parishconstable, as in America with its boundless soil,... | |
 | 1880 - 820 oldal
...resisting it." Very different in spirit is Carlyle's bitter hostility to Democracy. Democracy is to him, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business ; and gives in the long run a net result of zero. " Democracy never yet, that we heard of, was able to accomplish much work beyond that same cancelling... | |
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Where no government is wanted, save that of the parish-constable, as in America with its boundless soil, every man being able to find work and recompense for himself, democracy may subsist; not elsewhere, except briefly, as a swift transition toward something... 
