The ardour and vigour with which they are at any one time pursued, is the measure of a national spirit.
The passions of the poet pervaded the minds of the people, and the conceptions of men of genius, being communicated to the vulgar, became the incentives of a national spirit.
What proof can you give of a "national spirit" in your locality during the war?
Thirdly, Deterioration of National Spirit commenced by Cimon in the Use of Bribes and Public Tables.
A national spirit is the natural result of national existence, and although some of the present generation may feel colonial oppositions of opinion, yet this generation will die away and give place to a race of Americans.
National spirit and a national patriotism were finding expression.
The estrangement of Russia, the growth of national spirit in Germany and in Spain, involved a danger to Napoleon's power which far outweighed the visible results of his victory.
If ignorant and bigoted, they were nevertheless the real guardians of national spirit; and if their creed was a superstition rather than a religion, it at least kept the Greeks in a wholesome antagonism to the superstition of their masters.
Alexander felt to some extent the throb of national spirit.
In Canada, however, our attention is arrested by an example which illustrates the persistence and the strength of the force which perpetuates a national spirit.
Turn in what direction you will, you will find amongst modern peoples innumerable tribal manifestations which find no room for display in the more intellectual exhibitions of a national spirit.
Scotland, too, has a national spirit, so has Wales; in both countries this spirit is separatist in its essence, but the national instinctive tendencies are curbed and guided by the higher reasoning centres of the brain.
The north-east region of Ireland was the only part which was truly colonized; only a real or spontaneous colonization can carry a tribal or national spirit to a new land.
A national spiritin South Africa, merging in itself the hostile racial sentiments of Boer and Briton, may well prove to be the happiest result of the Union of South Africa.
National spirit would be lacking until we undertook national responsibilities.
There it was said that the one thing needful was the cultivation of a national spirit.
That has been the fetish which has been the ruin of Britain's national spirit.
The ramifications of our lack of national spirit are so multifarious that it is impossible to go into them as a whole.
And, from a national spirit view, was hideously grotesque.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "national spirit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
