...Whatever it may mean this it cannot, that Scotland was a land like the one described by Tennyson : — A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent. For at the time of the Union, there was, properly...

...and renewed France have not been paralleled in our own recent history. We boast of England as — ' 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...

...upon the stanza in which Mr. Tennyson declares it to be the special praise of England that she is ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Whose freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent,'— and the Hues are certainly very...

...(9. ) Here stopped the good old sire and wept for joy, In silent raptures of the hopeful boy. (10.) A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown. (11.) Myself not least, but honoured of them all. (12.) Of twenty yere of age he was I gesse, Of his...

...upon the stanza in which Mr. Tennyson declares it to be the special praise of England that she is ' A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Whose freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent,"— and the lines are certainly very...

...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...Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive...

...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...Freedom slowly broadens down From precedent to precedent : Where faction seldom gathers head, But by degrees to fullness wrought, The strength of some diffusive...

...land that freemen till, That sober-suited Freedom chose, The land, where girt with friends or foes 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...

...Whatever it may mean this it cannot, that Scotland was a land like the one described by Tennyson : — A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent. For at the time of the Union, there was, properly...

...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." " Love thou thy land with love far-brought From...