Britain over the sea, a reader compiled by E. LeeElizabeth Lee 1901 |
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Page xiii
... common opinion of foreigners . From the time of Alfred , English kings recognized the necessity of protecting the coasts by means of " ships royal , " that is , ships provided at the cost of the nation . But it was not until the time of ...
... common opinion of foreigners . From the time of Alfred , English kings recognized the necessity of protecting the coasts by means of " ships royal , " that is , ships provided at the cost of the nation . But it was not until the time of ...
Page xxii
... common to all the states was drawn up , subject to the approval of the British Parliament . In 1756 war with France broke out . Its main result for England was the capture of Quebec by General Wolfe , an episode in history that ensured ...
... common to all the states was drawn up , subject to the approval of the British Parliament . In 1756 war with France broke out . Its main result for England was the capture of Quebec by General Wolfe , an episode in history that ensured ...
Page xliv
... common idea that a colony is regarded and prized by a commercial country only as a source of wealth from the increased markets for trade , and as a means for the employment of surplus labour , must not be too literally interpreted . The ...
... common idea that a colony is regarded and prized by a commercial country only as a source of wealth from the increased markets for trade , and as a means for the employment of surplus labour , must not be too literally interpreted . The ...
Page xlv
... common aspiration of the Anglo- Saxon race to found and support a great Empire beyond the seas , so that the world might come to see in the British Empire the demonstration of a great scientific truth , in the survival of the race whose ...
... common aspiration of the Anglo- Saxon race to found and support a great Empire beyond the seas , so that the world might come to see in the British Empire the demonstration of a great scientific truth , in the survival of the race whose ...
Page xlvi
... common origin and antecedents , to draw more closely together the bonds which bind them to each other and to the mother- country , to oppose in calamity and danger a still more solid front to every foe , and to preserve sacred and ...
... common origin and antecedents , to draw more closely together the bonds which bind them to each other and to the mother- country , to oppose in calamity and danger a still more solid front to every foe , and to preserve sacred and ...
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Popular passages
Page 65 - Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government, they will cling and grapple to you ; and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another ; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation ; the cement is gone, the cohesion is loosened, and everything hastens to decay and dissolution.
Page 65 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Page 66 - England worship freedom, they will turn their faces towards you. The more they multiply, the more friends you will have ; the more ardently they love liberty, the more perfect will be their obedience. Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia.
Page 42 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Page 223 - For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor. The most effective of these causes are the great national events which are daily taking place, and the increasing accumulation of men in cities, where the uniformity of their occupations produces a craving for extraordinary incident, which the rapid communication of intelligence...
Page 70 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Page 67 - ... wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles, which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all.
Page 41 - Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.
Page 205 - A people's voice ! we are a people yet. Tho' all men else their nobler dreams forget, Confused by brainless mobs and lawless Powers ; Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Briton in blown seas and storming showers, We have a voice, with which to pay the debt Of boundless love and reverence and regret 168 ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
Page 66 - Do not dream that your letters of office, and your instructions, and your suspending clauses are the things that hold together the great contexture of the mysterious whole. These things do not make your government. Dead instruments, passive tools as they are, it is the spirit of the English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English constitution which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire,...