In this attempt we excited no national pride on the other side of the Atlantic.
They no doubt acquired this province with an intention of holding it, and it was an object of national prideto regain as much as practicable of the colonies which had been lost under the old Government.
There was a time when almost every nation which had a large observatory had a meridian, and that meridian was considered an object of national pride.
The Union might have been brought about thirty years earlier than it was, and it might not have bequeathed so many seeds of jealousy, and so much offence to national pride.
He did all he could to maintain them; but Lauderdale was able to carry the King with him in their abolition on the plea of their injury to national pride, and their certain result in national discontent, and Clarendon's advice was set aside.
The cession of an important sea- port must necessarily be galling to national pride, and an injury to national prestige; and in this case was the more damaging from the tenure of Dunkirk being the token of Cromwell's proud supremacy abroad.
But neither tariffs nor financiers would be able to cause serious trouble, if it were not for the sentiment of national pride.
National pride might be on the whole beneficent, if it took the direction of emulation in the things that are important to civilization.
National pride, as it exists now, is almost exclusively concerned with power and dominion, with the extent of territory that a nation owns, and with its capacity for enforcing its will against the opposition of other nations.
If we prided ourselves upon our poets, our men of science, or the justice and humanity of our social system, we might find in national pride a stimulus to useful endeavors.
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