...begins 'Love thou thy land with love far-brought;' and that which contains the well-known stanza: — 'A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent!' And there is a remarkable though rough vigour iu...

...ease, within this region I subsist, whose spirits falter in the mist and languish for the purple seas? it is the land that freemen till, that sober-suited...broadens slowly down from precedent to precedent: where faction seldom gathers head, but by degrees to fulness wrought, the strength of some diffusive...

...Within this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the mist, And languish for the purple seas ? It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited...man may speak the thing he will ; A land of settled goverument, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent:...

...Natives of Porta d'Jallon, . 3P4 Crossing the Pampas, . . 307 T PEOPLES OF THE WORLD. THE ENGLISHMAN. " It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited...friends or foes, A man may speak the thing he will." —TENNYSON. |F course we must first take the Englishman in our review of the Peoples of the World...

...whole country, from one end to the other." — EAKL RUSSELL, English Government and Constitution. " A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent." — TENNYSON. f GENTLEMEN, — I intend to lecture to you to-night upon the office and prerogatives...

...Tennyson in his mouth, I should not have ventured to tread. My noble Friend described England as — "A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent. — •" lines taken from the noble dedication and noble address of the Poet Laureate to the Queen.*...

...Within this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the mist, And languish for the purple seas ? It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited...Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive...

...Within this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the mist, And languish for the purple seas ? It is the land that freemen till, That sober-suited...friends or foes A man may speak the thing he will. TENNYSON. 31. Toleration. When Abraham sat at his tent-door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain...

...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...

...when he catches sight of a Briton making off with Mount St. Elias. The traveller survived to reach The land where, girt with friends or foes, A man may speak the thing he will ; and devoted, as he must be, to the cause of truth even more than to the acquisition of mountains,...