| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1851 - 954 sider
...cultivate the arts which serve to render life easy, in preference to those whose object is to adorn it. They will habitually prefer the useful to the...that the beautiful should be useful. But I propose <o go further ; and after having pointed out this first feature, to sketch several others. It commonly... | |
| Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 452 sider
...cultivate the arts which serve to render life easy, in preference to those whose object is to adorn it. They will habitually prefer the useful to the...separate walk, upon which it is not allowable for everyone to enter. Even when productive industry is free, the fixed character which belongs to aristocratic... | |
| Alexis de Tocqueville - 1980 - 402 sider
...cultivate the arts which serve to render life easy, in preference to those whose object is to adorn it. They will habitually prefer the useful to the...will require that the beautiful should be useful. . . . In countries in which riches as well as power are concentrated and retained in the hands of the... | |
| Dennis Porter - 1995 - 315 sider
...therefore cultivate the arts that serve to render life easy in preference to those whose object is to adorn it. They will habitually prefer the useful to the...beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful be useful." Democracy in America, trans. Henry Reeve, ed. Phillips Bradley (New York: Vintage Books,... | |
| Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, M. Richard Zinman - 1999 - 244 sider
...itself on the basis of utilitarian criteria: "Democratic nations," he wrote in Democracy in America, "will habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful be useful." Current pressures on the arts to be useful cause funders to measure their value by outreach... | |
| 2000 - 478 sider
...gravel pits, and more gravel trucks — reminders of something else de Tocqueville said about Americans: "They will habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful,...will require that the beautiful should be useful." On my way out of this area the next day, the Lolo Trail serves up some final ironies. In Lewiston,... | |
| Dennis G. Waring - 2002 - 388 sider
...that it is useful" (Pulos 1983, 7). Alexis de Tocqueville (1835) noted that "democratic nations . . . will habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful,...will require that the beautiful should be useful." This native inclination toward simple functional beauty, along with the unconventional yet resourceful... | |
| Joli Jensen - 2002 - 244 sider
...cultivate the arts that served to render life easy in preference to those whose object is to adorn it. They will habitually prefer the useful to the...beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful be useful." Further, democratic societies lack the segmentation that trained specialized artisans and... | |
| Eliot Clarke - 2003 - 290 sider
...example had appeared in London, Edinburgh or Paris." 41 De Tocqueville's clairvoyance saw that Americans "habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful and...will require that the beautiful should be useful." 42 Useful buildings of beauty were being erected in many seaports. Samuel Mclntyre built elegant houses... | |
| David Shields - 2006 - 254 sider
...more important than your team's success. At any time." (Cf. Alexis de Tocqueville: "Democratic nations will habitually prefer the useful to the beautiful, and they will require that the beautiful be useful"; what Payton likes to call "putting a little style in our game" Karl calls "too stylish... | |
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