 As an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we are and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard, for the taste of her writers is already...  Postcolonial English: Varieties around the World - Seite 277von Edgar W. Schneider - 2007Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - Über dieses Buch
 | 1989 - 710 Seiten
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 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1881 - 322 Seiten
...are disagreeable to strangers, and sometimes have an unhappy effect upon the social affections. . . . As an independent nation our honor requires us to...system of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard... | |
 | 1883 - 648 Seiten
...language as well as a national government." By way of enforcing his advice, he there also writes, " As an independent nation, our honor requires us to have a system 382 383 of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1885 - 394 Seiten
...are disagreeable to strangers, and sometimes have an unhappy effect upon the social affections. . . . As an independent nation our honor requires us to...system of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard... | |
 | George Henry Nettleton - 1916 - 298 Seiten
...upon was of the greatest importance to the future of his country. "As an independent nation," he says, "our honor requires us to have a system of our own in language as well as in government." Johnson's Dictionary, published in 1755, had been based on the authority of English... | |
 | Henry Louis Mencken - 1921 - 526 Seiten
...the university; London, 1855. For Gifford see the Quarterly, Jan., 1814, p. 528. •Vol. i, p. vi. As an independent nation our honor requires us to...system of our own, in language as well as government." Long before this the challenge had been flung. Scarcely two years after the Declaration of Independence... | |
 | H. L. Mencken - 1931 - 516 Seiten
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 | 1924 - 748 Seiten
...us seize the present moment, and establish a national language as well as a national government ... As an independent nation our honor requires us to...system of our own, in language as well as government". Nor has this spirit died out: in 1920 Mr. Rupert Hughes (quoted on p. 23 f.) wrote: "Why should we... | |
 | Allen Oscar Hansen - 1926 - 360 Seiten
...Furthermore, national solidarity was required in order that we might command the respect of other nations : "Our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government." 2 We were sufficiently isolated from Europe to develop this medium of expression with comparatively... | |
 | Allen Oscar Hansen - 1926 - 354 Seiten
...Furthermore, national solidarity was required in order that we might command the respect of other nations: "Our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government." 2 We were sufficiently isolated from Europe to develop this medium of expression with comparatively... | |
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