...it by the enlightened patriotism of the church. CHAPTER XXII. ECCLESIASTICAL AND MAGISTERIAL RULE. ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent. ' And let the change which comes be free To ingroove...

...sober-snited 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 to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees...

...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 to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head ; But, by degrees...

...magnanimous laxity," as we can, or think we can, afford to exhibit in our favoured isle :— " This land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent." This at least is certain, that, considering the...

...sober-seated 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. TENNYSON. CAVALIER AND ROUNDHEAD. Boy. So Sister Ann came to see you while I was away ; you found something...

...not before in human memory, even the oldest — but as Tennyson afterwards truly sang, of " A laud of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent." The idea might have been a pure fiction. Many of...

...rather than to destroy. 1 In the familiar words of our renowned poet CHAP. laureate, England has been : A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown : Where freedom broadens slowly down, From precedent to precedent. It cannot be denied that democratic opinions have...

...Freedom chose ; The land where, girt with friends or foes, A man may speak the thing he will : A laud of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down, From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head ; But, by degrees...

...possession." Mr Tennyson's ideal for every country is England, and \/ that is a blunder in politics : " A land of settled government, A land of just and old...slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent." That is an admirable verse ; but it is nobler to make than to follow precedents; and great emotions,...

...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 to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees...