Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Frontiers - Page 10by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston - 1907 - 58 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Haynes Holmes - 1925 - 224 pages
...is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies...had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys." WILLIAM COWPER. / PATRIOTISM IS NOT ENOUGH / ~|"" V HE... | |
| Junius Henderson - 1925 - 236 pages
...racial prejudices. "Lands, intersected by a narrow frith, Abhor each other. Mountains interposed i Make enemies of nations, who had else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one." COWPER. In so controlling the destinies of man, topography has to a marked degree controlled his activities... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed POEMS OP PATRIOTISM AND FREEDOM. Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplored As human... | |
| John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pages
...such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. 15 Lands intersected by a narrow frith tch 2 idle-talker 3 one 4 every ' grinding * nag 7...9 dark '" makes n weep "fireside "foaming ale "br Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; And worse than all, and most to be deplored, As human... | |
| Warren Wood - 1926 - 370 pages
...conditions — the flow of rivers, the trend of the Alleghenies; "Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other; Mountains interposed make enemies...else, like kindred drops, been mingled into one." In the Constitutional Convention of 1829-1830, Mr. Campbell introduced a resolution for the encouragement... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - 1926 - 630 pages
...knew how isolation of interest cultivates enmitv when he wrote — Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies...had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. A Call to Philadelphia IN 1776 patriots were called to Philadelphia to decide the destinies of the... | |
| Clara Linklater Thomson - 1914 - 82 pages
...connected with a lamentation on the constant strife between nations divided only by narrow seas : " Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys; And worse than all, and most to be deplored As human nature's... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1935 - 70 pages
...and lack of human contacts have made more wars than all other factors. As William Cowper put it : " Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who...else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one." As further evidence of the interest and value of foreign travel to the United States the St. Louis... | |
| 1898 - 798 pages
...such a worthy cause Dooms and dévotes him as his lawful prey. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies...had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man dévotes his brother, and destroys; And worse them ail, and most to be deplored, As human... | |
| 1855 - 44 pages
...we may well say with the great souled bard of Hertfordshire : " Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other: mountains interposed Make enemies...had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one." In their immediate results these Prejudices are as various as the circumstances which call them into... | |
| |