 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 714 pages
...birthplace. This natural fondness is united to a taste for ancient customs, and to a reverence for ancestral traditions of the past ; those who cherish it love their country as they love the mansion of their fathers. They enjoy the tranquillity which it affords them ; they cling to the peaceful habits which... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 pages
...birthplace. This natural fondness is united to a taste for ancient customs, and to a reverence for ancestral traditions of the past ; those who cherish it love their country as they love the mansion of their fathers. They enjoy the tranquillity which it affords them ; they cling to the peaceful habits which... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1899 - 514 pages
...birthplace. This natural fondness is united to a taste for ancient customs, and to a reverence for ancestral traditions of the past ; those who cherish it love their country as they love the mansions of their fathers. They enjoy the tranquillity which it affords them ; they cling to the peaceful... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1863 - 588 pages
...undefinable feeling which connects the affections of man with his birthplace. This natural fondness is united with a taste for ancient customs, and a...love their country as they love the mansion of their fathers. They love the tranquillity which it affords them ; they cling to the peaceful habits which... | |
 | Edward Chichester Bolton, Horace Hervey Webber - 1866 - 172 pages
...birthplace. This natural fondness is united to a taste for ancient customs; and to a reverence for ancestral traditions of the past; those who cherish it love their country as they love the mansion of their fathers. This patriotism is in itself a kind of religion : it does not reason, but it acts from the... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1870 - 628 pages
...undefinable feeling which connects the affections of man with his birthplace. This natural fondness is united with a taste for ancient customs, and a...love their country as they love the mansion of their fathers. They love the tranquillity which it affords them ; they cling to the peaceful habits which... | |
 | John Bigelow, Alexis de Tocqueville - 1899 - 538 pages
...birthplace. This natural fondness is united to a taste for ancient customs, and to a reverence for ancestral traditions of the past; those who cherish it love their country as they love the mansion of their fathers. They enjoy the tranquility which it affords them; they cling to the peaceful habits which... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve - 1899 - 504 pages
...birthplace. This natural fondness is united to a taste for ancient customs, and to a reverence for ancestral traditions of the past; those who cherish it love their country as they love the mansions of their fathers. They enjoy the tranquillity which it affords them ; they cling to the peaceful... | |
 | Harold J. Berman - 2000 - 432 pages
...Tocqueville in the early nineteenth century as including "the affections of a man with his birthplace united with a taste for ancient customs and a reverence for traditions of the past. . . patriotism sometimes simulated by religous enthusiasm " Alexis de Tocqueville, Drmocracy in America,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 2003 - 758 pages
...birthplace. This natural fondness is united to a taste for ancient customs, and to a reverence for ancestral traditions of the past; those who cherish it love their country as they love the mansions of their fathers. They enjoy the tranquillity which it affords them; they cling to the peaceful... | |
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THERE is one sort of patriotic attachment, which principally arises from that instinctive, disinterested, and undefinable feeling which connects the affections of man with his birthplace. 
