A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories — 'tis a surer barrier, and more important frontier, than fortress or river. Contemporary Ireland - Page 401by Louis François Alphonse Paul-Dubois - 1908 - 536 pagesFull view - About this book
| Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...writes Tacitus, " is ever the language of the slave." " A nation," says an Irish writer, Thomas Davis, " should guard its language more than its territories — 'tis a surer barrier and more important frontier than fortress or river. To lose one's native tongue and learn that of the... | |
| Irish birthday-book - Birthday books - 1884 - 302 pages
...1833. ©ctobcr 14 Thomas Davis born, 1814. ©ctobtr 15 Lord Edward Fitzgerald born, 1763. Octobcr 1 6 " A people without a language of its own is only half...more than its territories — 'tis a surer barrier, and more important frontier, than fortress or river." — THOMAS DAVIS. " Dear Lord, my cold heart... | |
| Albert Shaw - World politics - 1901 - 1024 pages
...manhood, and for its age, and when the language of its cradle goes, itself craves a tomb." And again : "A nation should guard its language more than its territories, — 'tis a surer barrier and a stronger frontier than fortress or river." The language and the mind of Ireland mutually reacted... | |
| 1901 - 600 pages
...manhood, and for its age, and when the language of its cradle goes, itself craves a tomb.' And again: 'A nation should guard its language more than its territories — 'tis a surer barrier and a stronger frontier than f cruets or river.' "The language and the mind of Ireland mutually reacted... | |
| Ireland - 1899 - 324 pages
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| Thomas Addis Emmet - 1911 - 636 pages
...conducted by English influence and to England's profit. Thomas Davis, the poet and patriot of 1848, wrote: "A people without a language of its own is only half...should guard its language more than its territories; it is a surer barrier and a more important frontier than fortress or river." I think I have a fair... | |
| Thomas Davis - Ireland - 1914 - 494 pages
...and co-tillage land — for without these a country cannot support itself in peace and social union." A people without a language of its own is only half...more than its territories — 'tis a surer barrier, and more important frontier, than fortress or river. Who had dared to propose the adoption of Persian... | |
| Canada. Parliament. Senate - Canada - 1915 - 516 pages
...other language on auch a people la to send their history adrift amongst the accident of translations. A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language. After having made the history of the Irish language, its troubles and struggles, Mr. Davis concludes... | |
| English literature - 1916 - 436 pages
...Irish members of other parties is slightly higher. t Fifty years earlier Thomas Davis had written : ' A people without a language of its own is only half a nation.' t 'The Pope's Green Island,' London, 1912, p. 55. of the new movement — men like Mr. Eoin MacNeill... | |
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