 | United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson), Woodrow Wilson - 1918 - 452 str.
...Tennyson in which he tries to give voice to his conception of what it is that stirs within a nation: "Some sense of duty, something of a faith, some reverence...will, some civic manhood firm against the crowd;" steadfastness, clearness of purpose, courage, persistency, and that uprightness which comes from the... | |
 | William George Fitz-Gerald - 1918 - 456 str.
...popular government so finely expounded as in The Princess?" "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." There is much Americanism here, with aspiration towards the ideal State; a benign democracy in which... | |
 | Henry Waters Taft - 1920 - 368 str.
...themselves to the law as it is and not as it ought to be. We Americans, in the words of Tennyson, have '' Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made; Some...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... | |
 | William Lee Richardson, Jesse M. Owen - 1922 - 552 str.
...very gradual modification of the existing order to form a better one. Let there be, says Tennyson, "Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some patient force to change them when we will." And there have been some very fundamental changes, which, however, have been nearly always accomplished... | |
 | Theodore A. Huntley - 1924 - 348 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 - 578 str.
...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 - 558 str.
...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... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1921 - 442 str.
...threaten loss of organic wholeness and soundness. The union of strength with bigness depends upon the 1 06 maintenance of character, and it is just the character...a people made up of "minds cast in every mould of race, — minds inheriting every basis of environment, warped by the diverse histories of a score of... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1926 - 428 str.
...strain of politics is Character. Think! Our task is to be "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." And our material? "Minds cast in every mould of race, minds inheriting every bias of environment, warped... | |
 | Phillip Rittenhause Clugston - 1927 - 638 str.
...muttered dream, And often feeling of the helpless hands, And wordless broodings on the wasted cheek Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence...we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd Onomatopoeia is used as skilfully in The Princess as anywhere in Tennyson. For instance, a large proportion... | |
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Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some patient force to change them when we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd... 
