Nor did he ever lose sight of his lofty ideal of liberty for his degradedfatherland or cease to hope for its realization.
He would put his trust in Providence, which could hardly fail to protect all these unhappy families that were leaving their fatherland to seek for better times elsewhere.
And again, the duty of parents toward their children is seen to be a special case of a very large and varied class of duties toward that great family to which we belong--to the fatherland and them that dwell therein.
The ultimate enemy of our country is America[85]; and I pray that I may see the day of an alliance between a beaten England and a victorious Fatherland against the bully of the Americas.
This choice of the Fatherlandas a place of pilgrimage was probably merely a reflection of the enthusiasm for German educational methods which then prevailed in the United States, especially at Johns Hopkins.
The states would promise everything he desired--they would pay all his debts--only his Grace must not leave them and their poor fatherland in their sore need.
More than one enthusiastic spirit was so attracted by them as to give up their Fatherland and go to the west, to their own destruction.
He who did not go to the field himself, or equip half his family, endeavoured to help his Fatherland by gifts.
If the pastor did not teach religion, neither did I teach politics, but left the Fatherland State system to the school of life.
Instruction in the history of their Fatherland was throughout Switzerland carefully attended to, but only the brilliant parts of it.
I had abandoned Fatherland and home, parents and property, only to undergo once more in a foreign country the catastrophe which I had avoided, and which now came upon me in a far worse form.
But they would not remain in the army; when the Fatherland was free, and the French put down, they would return to their lectures and legal documents in their studies.
By doing so, there would be no harm done to the prince, while, on the other hand, we may perchance save our fatherland from destruction.
The Emperor, who has subdued states and people to his rule, can hardly bear that your and my fatherland should remain so entirely independent.
When asked my purpose, I explained that I was a colonial of Scots extraction, who was paying his first visit to his fatherland and wanted to explore the beauties of the West Highlands.
It's not so hard as to wander round the Fatherland abusing Britain, which was your last job.
In Germany on the other hand, a sense of great military superiority prompted the thought that soon all the enemies of the Fatherland would be crushed.
That proof was thrust upon us at Vereeniging, and now every one who defended his Fatherland to the last can bear his fate with an easy conscience, and the world is convinced with us that we fought to the bitter end.
My answer is that, as we fought for the retention of our Fatherlandand our National honour, we, as men, could not give up the struggle before we had convincing proof that we had persevered and resisted to the uttermost.
The next century saw William Pitt allied with Frederick of Prussia to save the work of the Reformation in central Europe and set in motion the train of events that were at last to make the people of the Teutonic fatherland a nation.
Let us drink to the Fatherland and our place in the sun.
Those two Americans alone have the secret of this Widding invention, I am sure of that, and it is better for the Fatherland to get along without a Crown Prince than without a fleet.
Italy for us is the fatherland which lives in our souls as that complex and lofty moral idea which we are realising.
Where was the fatherland of Attila and of a hundred heroes of this type?
What fatherland have you, Cardinals de La Balue, Duprat, Lorraine, Mazarin?
Here," said the spirit, "are the twelve million Americans killed in their fatherland because they had not been baptized.
Where was the fatherland of the scarred Duc de Guise, was it in Nancy, Paris, Madrid, Rome?
The first man to write that the fatherland is wherever one feels comfortable was, I believe, Euripides in his "Phaeton.
Well now, is it better for yourfatherland to be a monarchy or a republic?
Those who have written on the rights of men, have been much tormented to know for certain if a man who has been banished from his fatherland still belongs to his fatherland.
A thinker who was listening to this conversation, concluded that in a fatherland of some extent there were often many thousand men who had no fatherland.
He who should wish that hisfatherland might never be greater, smaller, richer, poorer, would be the citizen of the world.
All forgot that Godfrey of Bouillon after he left for the Crusades never saw his fatherland again, but died at Jerusalem, five years before Rashi.
During the last war, which was brought to so speedy, and so fortunate, a conclusion, Germans in every quarter of the globe responded nobly when called upon to prove their love of Fatherland by helping to relieve the suffering.
A famous orator praised him and said, “By your labors you have saved the fatherland from disaster.
The Gauls wage many wars to free[1] their fatherland from slavery.
When men are far from the fatherland and lack food, they cannot be restrained[2] from wrong[3].
But a new inspiration has come to the Jews of Eastern Europe through the Zionistic movement; a revival of Jewish nationalism, a desire to win back the lost Palestine,--the Fatherland of their spiritual sires.
The common people from whom our immigrants sprang, now have large powers in directing the political well-being of the Fatherland under less favourable conditions.
When he revisits his Fatherland, these weaknesses manifest themselves most; and then his adopted Fatherland comes in for a good share of the blame for his lack of manners.
Among other letters he observed in one to Count Hohenlo, that he was astonished and grieved to find that all his faithful labours and sufferings in the cause of his fatherlandhad been forgotten in an hour.
That which to me is most mournful is no longer to be able to assist myfatherland by my counsels and my actions.
But in my second fatherland there is always the splendid and silent light of the sun.
In my first fatherland there is now no other light except the brightness of tears.
Thanks to the blessing of a fatherland each citizen may spend his days in peace and safety.
Esteem your fatherland as your estate, the citizens as comrades, your friends as your own children, and your sons even as your own soul.
Once more, the rest of mankind find in their fatherland a treasure worth all else beside.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fatherland" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: birthplace; country; cradle; home; land; root
