 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 broadens slowly down From precedent...  Littell's Living Age - Side 5181884Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Shrewsbury (England). Royal School - 1801 - 368 sider
...soher-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...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent. Should banded unions persecute Opinion, and induce a time When single thought is civil crime, And individual... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1843 - 260 sider
...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...Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fullness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson (1st baron.) - 1845 - 510 sider
...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...Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fullness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1846 - 252 sider
...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 Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fullness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | 1849 - 508 sider
...suited freedom chose, The land where, girt with friends and foes, A man may speak the thing he will : A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, TELESILE. BY JOHN BAKER. WITHIN a hall in Nanci's fortress town, A maiden and a youth together stood... | |
 | Benjamin Hall Kennedy - 1850 - 364 sider
...soher-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...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent. Should banded unions persecute Opinion, and induce a time When single thought is civil crime, And individual... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1850 - 402 sider
...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...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent: Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive... | |
 | Hugh Seymour Tremenheere - 1852 - 378 sider
...Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Through future time by power of thought. * * * * " A land of settled government, A land of just and old...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent." TEXNYSON. If they would take those words into their minds and hearts they would distrust " the braggart... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1872 - 522 sider
...the words of our poet laureate, language not more poetical than true, our country is hailed as — " A land of settled government, A land of just and old...broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent." In this respect, England differs from almost every continental nation. To say nothing of France, which... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1898 - 248 sider
...hindered, Britain's development into what she is at present, — the freest country in the world : — A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, "Where freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent. "Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees... | |
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