| St. Louis Mercantile Library Association - 1889 - 584 pages
...world is indebted for those golden words, dear to every true and noble heart, "Lives there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land ?" This bust is by J. Hutchinson, a Scottish sculptor ; it is mounted on a pedestal most artistically... | |
| Richard Harcourt - Public schools - 1890 - 350 pages
...well as scholars, will, it is believed, bring about equally good results. " Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land." The future security of the country depends to a great extent upon the children in the public... | |
| Lelia Hardin Bugg - Christian life - 1891 - 226 pages
...a good citizen. To answer in the negative Scott's immortal question: ' ' Breathes there a man wilh soul so dead Who never to himself has said This is my own, my native land?" It is Not the Correct Thing For a man to think that he can rightfully live only for himself.... | |
| Nicholas Paine Gilman - Conduct of life - 1891 - 418 pages
...and right, how sweet and beautiful it is to die for their country. Rare, indeed, is the man, " With soul so dead, Who never to himself has said ' This is my own, my native land.' " And when we say it, we feel that our country has a supreme claim upon us. It is the largest... | |
| Samuel Laing - Philosophy - 1892 - 336 pages
...not sympathise with the legends of Wallace and William Tell, and scorn with Walter Scott the man with soul so dead Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land 1 And yet how thin a line of partition separates it from narrow-minded arrogance and insolent... | |
| Great Britain. State Trials Committee - Trials - 1893 - 518 pages
...numbers assembled. It was held in the Market Square. I saw many banners. There were inscriptions on some. One was, " See the Conquering Hero comes." Another:...Ireland, her Parliament, or the World in a Blaze." " Cead Millo Failtha." A Juror : Was the banner, " Ireland, her Parliament, or the World in a Blaze," displayed... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1893 - 428 pages
...lines came full into Caroline's recollection as French Clay spoke : — " Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land? Whose heart hath ne'er within him bura'd, As home his footsteps he hath Uun'd, From wandering... | |
| 1894 - 1020 pages
...the words of the poet are not applicable to any of THE ROSARY children: " Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, 'This is my own, my native land! ' " Bless God that you are Americans, and resolve always to reflect honor and credit on the name,... | |
| Alexander Francis Chamberlain - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 482 pages
...strike " For God, and your native land." Scott's far-famed lines : — " Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land ! " and Smith's national hymn, " My country, 'tis of thee," know no mother-land. In the great... | |
| Michigan. Department of Public Instruction - Education - 1895 - 686 pages
...who professes religion and has no love for hie country, is a hypocrite. "Breathes there a man with soul so dead who never to himself has said, this is my own, my native land. If such there breathe, go mark him well." By religion I do not mean bigotry nor sectarianism,... | |
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