The History of English Patriotism, Volume 1John Lane Company, 1913 |
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... Englishmen before the Conquest . That the Anglo - Saxon was capable , upon occasion , of devotion to his native land is beyond question . In Alfred , England found one who is entitled to a high place upon her roll of patriot kings , one ...
... Englishmen before the Conquest . That the Anglo - Saxon was capable , upon occasion , of devotion to his native land is beyond question . In Alfred , England found one who is entitled to a high place upon her roll of patriot kings , one ...
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... Englishmen than that of the Conqueror . The sympathies of the people were on the side of the Archbishop , for whom , living and dead , they showed extraordinary devotion . In some vague way they recognized that the cause of the Church ...
... Englishmen than that of the Conqueror . The sympathies of the people were on the side of the Archbishop , for whom , living and dead , they showed extraordinary devotion . In some vague way they recognized that the cause of the Church ...
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... Englishmen become to anti - national tendencies on the part of the Church . For if the royal power was stark and alien in its sympathies , it made amends by fostering the growth of that toughest and most distinctively national of our ...
... Englishmen become to anti - national tendencies on the part of the Church . For if the royal power was stark and alien in its sympathies , it made amends by fostering the growth of that toughest and most distinctively national of our ...
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... Englishmen . The great kings before the Conquest had been lawgivers , or rather codifiers of custom , and Alfred was no less renowned for the peace he estab- lished throughout his realm , than for his resistance to the foreigner . When ...
... Englishmen . The great kings before the Conquest had been lawgivers , or rather codifiers of custom , and Alfred was no less renowned for the peace he estab- lished throughout his realm , than for his resistance to the foreigner . When ...
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... Englishmen or nothing . The tyranny and misfortunes of the wicked Lackland did even more to cement the realm than the strong arm of his father . But so strong was the system of government and the personal character that John had ...
... Englishmen or nothing . The tyranny and misfortunes of the wicked Lackland did even more to cement the realm than the strong arm of his father . But so strong was the system of government and the personal character that John had ...
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Página 365 - Give them consistency of judgment, one heart, and mutual love; and go on to deliver them, and with the work of reformation ; and make the Name of Christ glorious in the world. Teach those who look too much on Thy instruments, to depend more upon Thyself. Pardon such as desire to trample, upon the dust of a poor worm, for they are Thy People too. And pardon the folly of this short Prayer : — Even for Jesus Christ's sake. And give us a good night, if it be Thy pleasure. Amen.
Página 598 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Página 413 - WHEN civil dudgeon first grew high, And men fell out they knew not why ; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears...
Página 364 - Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in covenant with Thee through grace, and I may, I will come to Thee for Thy people. Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service...
Página xix - I would have you day by day fix your eyes upon the greatness of Athens, until you become filled with the love of her; and when you are impressed by the spectacle of her glory, reflect that this empire has been acquired by men who knew their duty and had the courage to do it...
Página 358 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Página 245 - This England never did, (nor never shall,) Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, But when it first did help to wound itself. Now these her princes are come home again, Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them : Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Página 222 - Deare countrey ! O! how dearely deare Ought thy remembraunce and perpetuall band Be to thy foster Childe, that from thy hand Did commun breath and nouriture receave. How brutish is it not to understand How much to her we owe, that all us gave ; That gave unto us all what ever good we have.
Página 345 - I can give not what men call love, But wilt thou accept not The worship the heart lifts above And the Heavens reject not, The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow ? 1821.
Página 378 - Though Justice against Fate complain, And plead the ancient Rights in vain— But those do hold or break As men are strong or weak.