So far, therefore, as either designed or accidental violations of treaties and the laws of
nations afford JUST causes of war, they are less to be apprehended under one general government than under several lesser ones, and in that respect the former most favors the SAFETY of the people.
The wars of these two last-mentioned
nations have in a great measure grown out of commercial considerations, -- the desire of supplanting and the fear of being supplanted, either in particular branches of traffic or in the general advantages of trade and navigation, and sometimes even the more culpable desire of sharing in the commerce of other
nations without their consent.
May He not have over-ruled their designs, and founded for us a
nation by them?
The only adequate way to arrive at the value of the telephone is to consider the
nation as a whole, to take it all in all as a going concern, and to note that such a
nation would be absolutely impossible without its telephone service.
It was remarked, on a former occasion, that the want of this pretext had saved the liberties of one
nation in Europe.
All the Western
nations, and some few of the Eastern, were represented.
- They run, one, two, three, and me, and make go in the canoe; my
nation have no canoe that time.
Nearly a century ago, one of those rare minds to whom it is given to discern future greatness in its seminal principles, upon contemplating the situation of this continent, pronounced, in a vein of poetic inspiration, "Westward the star of empire takes its way." Let us unite in ardent supplication to the Founder of
nations and the Builder of worlds, that what then was prophecy may continue unfolding into history--that the dearest hopes of the human race may not be extinguished in disappointment, and that the last may prove the noblest empire of time.
In its incorruptible flow all round the globe of the earth it preserves from the decay and forgetfulness of death the greatness of our great men, and amongst them the passionate and gentle greatness of Nelson, the nature of whose genius was, on the faith of a brave seaman and distinguished Admiral, such as to "Exalt the glory of our
nation."
.testing whether that
nation, or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated.
Well, to the king, the nobles, and all the
nation, down to the very slaves and tramps, I was just that kind of an elephant, and nothing more.
As a
nation grows and changes, its literature grows and changes with it.
