 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1855 - 404 oldal
...he will ; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fullness wrought, The strength of some diffusive thought Hath time and space to work and spread. Should... | |
 | Edward Stillingfleet Cayley - 1856 - 328 oldal
...sober-suited Freedom chose ; The land where, girt by friends or foes, A man may speak the thing he will. A land of settled government, — A land of just and...slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent. TEMNYSOM. " Steady prices are impossible, because, without a check on excess, it is the interest of... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1856 - 400 oldal
...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent: Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees... | |
 | Colburn Mayne - 1856 - 344 oldal
...sober-suited Freedom chose, The land where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will. A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent.' ALKRKD TENNTSON. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON:... | |
 | Frederic Richard Lees - 1856 - 354 oldal
...plant its banner securely upon tlie mountain summit. To use the reverse figure of TENNYSON, England is A land of settled government ; A land of just and old renown ; Where Freedom broadens slowly down from precedent to precedent. Happily, however, in both countries there is the... | |
 | 1857 - 834 oldal
...fruit of long and industrious cultivation. Her whole history has been sketched in a single stanza: " A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down from precedent lo precedent." Constitutions formed in this way inherit stability... | |
 | James White - 1859 - 676 oldal
...has won. "A land of settled government, A land of just aud old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent ; Where faction seldom...some diffusive thought, Hath time and space to work aud spread." Charlemagne is the greatest name in European history, with the exception, perhaps, of... | |
 | 1859 - 650 oldal
...ago. then, undoubtedly, he has much to answer for. But if it is England's great merit that it is ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old...Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent ' — then we may hope that there might be some candid enough to accost his shade in the Elysian fields,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 oldal
...ago, then, undoubtedly, he has much to answer for. But if it is England's great merit that it is ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old...Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent ' — then we may hope that there might be some candid enough to accost his shade in the Elysian fields,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 oldal
...ago, then, undoubtedly, he has much to answer for. But if it is England's great merit that it is ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old...slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent'— then we may hope that there might be some candid enough to accost his shade in the Elysian fields,... | |
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It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will; A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent... 
