We were not big enough to march side by side with such a wealthy and powerful person, and it is in view of a war, always near at hand and inevitable, that we now suffer so cruelly from having to support the budgets of a great nation.
They, the Italians, had sinned by excess of legitimate pride, they had proceeded too hastily with their attempt to improvise a great nation, to change ancient Rome into a great modern capital as by the mere touch of a wand.
I was to witness an extraordinary transformation of a great nation.
In an attempt to tell the story of a great nation in about 100 pages, it is needless to say there must be a rigid exclusion of all save essential facts.
It was written in the book of fate that Gaul should become a great nation; but not until fused and interpenetrated with two other nationalities.
II Many years have passed since Abram was called to go forth from his father's house, assured that God would make of him a great nation.
Had Bunyan lived a month longer, he would have witnessed the glorious Revolution--the escape of a great nation.
This is not, as you deem it, a popular movement; but the almost unanimous insurrection of a great nation against an old and decaying order of things.
If you display the dignity that befits the representatives of a great nation, you will gain esteem, applause, and assistance.
Above all, deeming the Huguenots to be heretics, they excluded from Canada the very people who might have made the French in Canada a great nation.
They were bold men in a "howling wilderness"; they were the pioneers of a great nation.
If language alone makes a nation, then there is no great nation on earth: for there is no country whose population is counted by millions, but speaks more than one language.
They rejoiced that a great nation, with kindred principles and institutions, was established as an independent republic amidst the despotisms of Europe.
Your position is to be a great nation; therefore your necessity is to act like a great nation; or, if you do not, you will not be great.
We see that in all those qualities that really go to make a great business house in a great nation John D.
Church that could produce and keep producing Bishop Gores, would be entitled, from a great nation to anything it liked.
He had been filled night and day with the vision of a great nation struggling, with the grim glory of it.
If this were true and if climateric conditions were such as to prevent mental and physical growth there would be little hope for the newly constituted country to ever become a great nation.
Then, by contrast, the obstinacy of Jefferson in using every means in his power and in the power of the Federal Government in order to obtain a conviction, has been represented as a display of pettiness unworthy of the chief of a great nation.
I have in my mind another host, whom these set free of civil strife in order that they might work out in days of peace and settled order the life of a great Nation.
So it ought to be with every man who tries to guide the counsels of a great nation.
They have meant peace and union and vigor, and the maturity and might of a great nation.
It is thus that she will win the confidence of men and of capital; that is, of the two elements which she must still multiply in order to become a great nation.
Will this truly abnormal situation, containing both very bad and very good elements, perhaps, terminate favourably, making of the Argentine people not merely a rich, but also a great nation?
By so doing, it will inspire confidence in men and in capital: the two elements which it must still increase in order to become a great nation.
It is a great nation that is rising on the brink of the twentieth century; the mistress of an enormous inheritance.
Arise, lift up the lad, and hold him in thine hand; for I will make him a great nation.
I hoped to have had thee to follow me and make a great nation.
Dost thou think that God, who promised to make of thee a great nation, and to bless all generations through Isaac, would thus persuade thee to make void His own promises?
It would be conduct more in accordance with the traditions of a great nation if we gave them credit for the virtues they possess and the courage they display.
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