 | 1859 - 578 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 - 584 oldal
...ago, then, undoubtedly, he has much to answer for. But if it is England's great merit that it is ' A land of set.tled government, A land of just and...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,... | |
 | James White - 1859 - 582 oldal
...quarrel, nor idle in a just one ; which protects and guards the blessings which the intellect has won. -** 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.... | |
 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 oldal
...story of a free people and of a land of liberty ! Yet how different ! For the Land they told of was "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... | |
 | 1860 - 444 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." Hence he glories in his great position as a modern... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1860 - 404 oldal
...Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will; A laud 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... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1861 - 376 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... | |
 | Anonymous - 1861 - 604 oldal
...It was with a melancholy satisfaction that he contrasted the political undulations of France with ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent.' It was with no less interest that he compared the... | |
 | William Tallack - 1861 - 326 oldal
...the inevitable changes of successive years. Thus has Britain become, under the Divine blessing — " 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... | |
 | 1861 - 600 oldal
...It was with a melancholy satisfaction that he contrasted the political undulations of France with ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent.' It was with no less interest that he compared the... | |
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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... 
