...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 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 fulness wrought, The strength of some diffusive...

...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...

...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...

...their nationality as one of a nation ' whose flag has braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze 'A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom slowly broadens down, From precedent to precedent — and which, without undue boasting, has had a not inglorious history. C. I grant you all that. We...

...constitution, there was a movement of unremitting adaptation and reform carried out without violence in A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where Freedom broadens slowly down From precedent to precedent. This third influence— trust in institutions—...

...must differ widely in concept and implementation. The British system, as Tennyson said, was that for "A land of settled government, / A land of just and...slowly broadens down / From precedent to precedent." A fundamental constitutional departure, I contended, should not be taken in a section of an act that...

...Why, Though 111 at Ease," Tennyson describes Britain as the land "that sober-suited Freedom chose. ... A Land of settled government, / A land of just and...slowly broadens down / From precedent to precedent" influential example, AR Humphreys contended that eighteenth-century British literature "reflected a...

...Grant is referring to Tennyson's lines in stanza 3 of 'You ask me, why, though ill at ease' (1842): 'A land of settled government,/ A land of just and...slowly broadens down/ From precedent to precedent.' 3 Donald Grant Creighton (1902-79), professor of history at Victoria College, University of Toronto...