The History of English Patriotism, Volume 1John Lane Company, 1913 |
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... soul . It shunned the mys- terious , the supernatural , whatever did not lend itself to clear - cut outline and exact definition . Its deities were very beautiful , but they ceased to be divine . It is to the memory of the dead , and ...
... soul . It shunned the mys- terious , the supernatural , whatever did not lend itself to clear - cut outline and exact definition . Its deities were very beautiful , but they ceased to be divine . It is to the memory of the dead , and ...
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... soul , and while it does not lack delicacy , it has strength to back it . Decadent art is often precious , but it is seldom of any depth , its beauty is that of a mood , of an hour . It is in the Dantes , the Shakespeares , the ...
... soul , and while it does not lack delicacy , it has strength to back it . Decadent art is often precious , but it is seldom of any depth , its beauty is that of a mood , of an hour . It is in the Dantes , the Shakespeares , the ...
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... soul , and with all his strength . There can be no conflict of God and motherland , for love is an inex- haustible fountain that only gushes forth more freely the deeper we drink of it . Nor is patriotism something enjoined from outside ...
... soul , and with all his strength . There can be no conflict of God and motherland , for love is an inex- haustible fountain that only gushes forth more freely the deeper we drink of it . Nor is patriotism something enjoined from outside ...
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... soul must needs stand and make her choice alone . The first duty is to find out where the domain of love ends , and that of intellectual abstraction begins . Let us suppose the choice to be put before an Irishman . He must inquire ...
... soul must needs stand and make her choice alone . The first duty is to find out where the domain of love ends , and that of intellectual abstraction begins . Let us suppose the choice to be put before an Irishman . He must inquire ...
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Esmé Wingfield-Stratford. patriotisms that the soul can rise to a world - wide imperialism . Our history closes upon the same note as it commences . In early times the problem was how to weld a number of personal and sectional loyalties ...
Esmé Wingfield-Stratford. patriotisms that the soul can rise to a world - wide imperialism . Our history closes upon the same note as it commences . In early times the problem was how to weld a number of personal and sectional loyalties ...
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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.