 | Theodore A. Huntley - 1924 - 295 str.
...to perserve on this country for ourselves and our offspring. A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled. Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...patient force to change them when we will, Some civic virtue, firm against the crowd. XI Yet it cannot fee that we are to fee shaken forever by the ague... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1925
...Tennyson than in all the textbooks on governments put together : A nation still, the rules and the ruled, Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd. Can you find summed up the manly, self-helping spirit of Saxon liberty anywhere better than in those... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1925
...necessary that we should forget the fine old discipline of ancient doctrine ; we should not forget to have some sense of duty, something of a faith, some reverence for the laws ourselves have made. I believe that the principal menace of a democracy is that the disciplinary power of the common thought... | |
 | 1889
...degenerating fibre. We have so far succeeded in retaining " Some sense of duty, something of a faith, t Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some...will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd." lut we must reckon our power to continue to do so with a people made up of "' minds cast in every mould... | |
 | Illinois State Bar Association - 1896
...Nation while within itself A Nation yet the rulers and the ruled; Some sense of duty, something of faith; Some reverence for the laws ourselves have...patient force to change them when we will; Some civic minhood, firm against the crowd." I look upon it as benignant, merciful, magnificent, secure in its... | |
 | American-Irish Historical Society - 1914
...in the celebration of the glory and majesty of their country, but the country can have no glory or no majesty unless there be a deep principle and conviction...some patient force to change them when we will, some civil manhood firm against the crowd ; steadfastness, clearness of purpose, courage, persistency, and... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1907 - 601 str.
...keeps her off, And keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd — But yonder, whiff! there comes a sudden heat, The gravest citizen seems to lose his head, The king... | |
 | New York State Bar Association - 1920
...themselves to the law as it is and not as it ought to be. We Americans, in the words >>f Tennyson, have " Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made ;...will ; Some civic manhood, firm against the crowd." The possession of the spirit speaking in these lines has no doubt saved the American people at critical... | |
 | Rabin - 1984 - 344 str.
...degenerating fibre. We have so far succeeded in remaining 'A nation yet, the rulers and the ruledSome sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd!' (6:233-234) This heady language must be read against the spirit of Wilson's times. His talk of race,... | |
 | James David Barber - 2011 - 353 str.
...George and George, Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House, p. 149. A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd.* Wilson told her that "the reactionaries, those who call themselves conservatives, are the real destroyers.... | |
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said my college friend, The Tory member's elder son, 'and there! God bless the narrow sea which keeps her off, And keeps our Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence... 
