Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.
In the first place, it forfeits the respect and confidence of other nations, and all the advantages connected with national character.
Yet however requisite a sense of national character may be, it is evident that it can never be sufficiently possessed by a numerous and changeable body.
The educational forces of the world must begin now the gigantic task of national character building.
These inconsistencies derive from the old fallacy of attributing the course of the Reformation to national character.
The features of a national character must be marked and prominent, and a strong sense of a national individuality be developed, before that last, best faculty of man is aroused, and leaps forth to maturity in verse.
Do not forget that, in my general observations, I do not pretend to sketch a national character, but merely to note the present state of morals and manners as I trace the progress of the world's improvement.
The professional had indeed effaced the national character, for, living as he did within these frank hospitable people, still only the exciseman appeared, the counterpart of some I had met with in England and France.
All are eager to give a national character, which is rarely just, because they do not discriminate the natural from the acquired difference.
Many of these objects partake largely of a national character, and are important independently of their relation to the prosperity of the only considerable organized community in the Union entirely unrepresented in Congress.
The party of strict construction contend for its restriction to national objects--rivers of national character, and harbors yielding revenue.
In short, could he be mistaken in the position that all the inducement, of a national character, to expunge that article from the treaty, was to get rid of an obligation to negotiate 'at a convenient time?
The chief reason for this, so far as national character goes, is the way in which wealth is sought.
However, if there is one safe exponent of national character, it is language.
At last, at the time of the Reformation, when the political life of the country assumed for a time a national character, German literature also is for a short time national.
The study we have already made of collective mental life will enable us to understand what we mean, or ought to mean, when we speak of national character.
I have said enough for my purpose upon this topic; and indeed on the general question of the modification of national character to which the Turks were at this period subjected.
The 10 national character of the Turks," he says, "is a composition of contradictory qualities.
We Germans know but little of the laws which govern the formation of national character.
We have not succeeded in finding a substitute for social ethics in an idealized type of national character.
This 'sliding scale' of morality has great disadvantages; none greater than the injury it inflicts on national character, and the occasion it offers for our disparagement at the hands of other people.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "national character" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
