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Paris in America

Paris in America


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. At a time when it is the fashion of a faction among us to carp at American institutions and greatness; to declare that democracy is a failure; that the masses are incompetent to govern themselves; that the titled inequality of Europe is better than the glorious equality which proclaims us all sovereigns, and predestines no one to the humiliation of being obliged to bow his head at home or abroad, and acknowledge another his superior; and to ape this inequality by striving to raise up factitious social distinctions—at such a time, the appearance of a work like the present cannot fail to be of marked utility. A profound, sagacious and acute student of the United States, bringing to the research an appreciation and love of liberty and democracy, as embodied in the ideal of our Republic, M. Labonlaye, well styled in Paris leplus americain de tons les Franfais, and whose knowledge of America is perhaps greater than that of any other man in Europe, was admirably calculated to draw a parallel between the practical workings of these principles in America, and the effects of monarchism in Europe, which may lead us as a nation to set a higher value on the blessings within our grasp, and more fully to realize the picture which our friend has drawn of us. Nor is this picture wholly eulogistic. On looking closely the reader will discover many a pungent satire on our absurdities, follies and shortcomings, which we would do well not to pass by unheeded. Perhaps some brief note of the author himself may not be an ill-timed introduction to the work. -" jCf, Hidouard Rene Lofebvre Laboulaye was born in Paris in 1811, where he studied law, and first became known through a " History of the Law of Real Estate, from Constantino to the Present Times," published in 1839, and ...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781429015523
  • Publisher: Applewood Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Applewood Books
  • Height: 230 mm
  • No of Pages: 384
  • Series Title: Civil War
  • Weight: 612 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1429015527
  • Publisher Date: 01 Oct 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Width: 155 mm


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