...part with their government, • whether free or despotic, against foreigners. Against an in' vasion of foreigners, the national character is always engaged,...national spirit. When a people cease to have a national cha' racter to maintain, they lose the mainspring of whatever is ' laudable, both in public and in...

...lost its liberty, it is still a privilege to have its countryman and not a foreigner as its ruler. Nations always take a part with their Government,...life, and the private sinks with the public character. Though under such obstacles the improvement of character must necessarily be slow and difficult, and...

...lost its liberty, it is still a privilege to have its countryman and not a foreigner as its ruler. Nations always take a part with their Government,...life, and the private sinks with the public character. " Though under such obstacles the improvement of character must necessarily be slow and difficult,...

...lost its liberty, it is still a privilege to have its countryman and not a foreigner as its ruler. Nations always take a part with their Government,...life, and the private sinks with the public character. "Though under such obstacles the improvement of character must necessarily be slow and difficult, and...

...effete" native Governments ? because they do not feel themselves degraded as they do under us, for it is not the arbitrary power of a national sovereign,...subjugation to a foreign one that destroys national power and extinguishes national spirit, and with this the mainspring of whatever is laudable both in...

...lost its liberty, it is still a privilege to have its countryman and not a foreigner as its ruler. Nations always take a part with their government,...life, and the private sinks with the public character. Though under such obstacles the improvement of character must necessarily be slow and difficult, and...

...government of the country. .... It is not the arbitrary power of a national sovereign, but subjection to a foreign one, that destroys national character...cease to have a national character to maintain, they loco tho mainspring of whatever is laudable both in public mid in private life, and the private sinks...

...and in such a cause the people often contend as strenuously in the defence of a despotic as of a fret government. It is not the arbitrary power of a national...life, and the private sinks with the public character. 39. Though under such obstacles the improvement of character must necessarily be slow and difficult,...