Alexis de Tocquevillein a sentence
- Tocqueville was impressed with the dignity afforded American commoners.
- We shall have our de Tocqueville, mind you; and you shall read every last page.† (source)
- To that end, tonight on the table beside their nearly empty plates were two copies of Alexis de Tocqueville's masterpiece, Democracy in America.† (source)
- Osip considered the Count for a moment Then he picked up de Tocqueville and hurled him across the room.† (source)
- Promising to read his de Tocqueville by their very next meeting, the Count excused himself and slipped out the door while Osip picked up the claret.† (source)
- "And I have to admit, that while I appreciated de Tocqueville's attention to detail, on the whole I found the first volume, on the Americans' political system, rather slow in going."† (source)
- Two months after what Osip liked to refer to as "The de Tocqueville Affair," he had appeared in the Yellow Room with a projector and an uncensored print of A Day at the Races.† (source)
- In New England, Pennsylvania, and New York the race is extinct; and the predictions of M. de Tocqueville are fulfilled.† (source)
- De Tocqueville's Preface To The Second Part The Americans live in a democratic state of society, which has naturally suggested to them certain laws and a certain political character.† (source)